Recent content by Howard Wachtel

Greece’s Woes: So Goes the Euro

The Greek crisis has exposed the fundamental flaws in the Euro project: it stripped countries control over the price of money and allowed political elites to undermine Europe's post-war social contract.

Casino Crash: the end of neo-liberalism? (Video)
Does the greatest financial crisis since the Wall Street crash of 1929 mean that the 'capitalism as we know it' has reached its end? TNI panelists analyse the causes and consequences of the on-going global financial crisis and discuss its profound implications for a changed world order.
Remarks at Union for Radical Political Economics 40th Anniversary
Howard Wachtel recalls the creation of the Union of Radical Political Economics in the summer of 1968
Capital Controls Through the Lense of the Exporting Country:
Tax Distortion in the Global Economy
US - China Financial Entanglements
The Vanishing Corporate Profits Tax
Euro-Dollar Conflicts
Stock Plot: Corporate Scandals Reprise Wall Street Themes of Passion, Broken Hearts
Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts

This is the story of America's most famous street, Wall Street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Wachtel charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the center of world finance that we see today.

The American century
The Tobin Tax as Fund for Financial Stability
Whither the Washington Consensus
World Trade Order and the Beginning of the Decline of the Washington Consensus
On preserving capitalism in the 21st century: The Lugano Report
Trois taxes globales pour maitriser la speculation
Labor's Stake in the WTO
The Single Currency: A Debate that May Not Happen