Economics

Curious George Talks the Market Curious George Talks the Market

The epic, slow-motion crisis unraveling the global economic system continues to gather momentum, taking down Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, now Brazil. Who's next?

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Anatoly Chubais press conference

The Harvard Boys Do Russia The Harvard Boys Do Russia

After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S.

May 14, 1998 / Feature / Janine R. Wedel

People’s Sellout People’s Sellout

Wall Street did not simply drag Europe's exchanges down in its fall.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?

With the Soviet model shattered forever, it is the social democratic one that is now in deep crisis in Western Europe. On the face of it, judging just by the results of June's Eu...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few

The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few

“Where it is all going to end, and what kind of life the ‘merchant of the future’ will lead, nobody knows.”

Sep 27, 1866 / Richard Kreitner

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