Author Archive: Marshall Auerback

Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and commentator.

We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Way

Released for Syndication: 06/29/2020

Reconstructing our tax system is an integral part of future national industrial policy as we restart the economy.

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Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right

Released for Syndication: 06/19/2020

COVID-19 will force us to rethink many of the assumptions underlying existing GND proposals.

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The European Union Still Hasn’t Considered an Economic Proposal That Can Save It

Released for Syndication: 06/09/2020

The latest ideas are too little, too late, and still hamstrung by institutional barriers that block genuine economic recovery. They do not represent a “Hamiltonian moment.”

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The Battle Over Free Speech Online Is a Volcano That’s Ready to Blow

Released for Syndication: 06/03/2020

It cannot be done via executive fiat and likely entails the involvement of the FCC as well as the revival of the fairness doctrine.

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If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs, There Is Another Solution

Released for Syndication: 05/22/2020

The refusal of the federal government to contemplate per capita revenue distributions means that more radical measures need to be considered by the state governments.

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How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Euro

Released for Syndication: 05/18/2020

In the absence of an agreed set of rules for all the countries in the eurozone, the single-currency union cannot be sustained, and, as the EU’s biggest creditor, Germany stands to lose the most from its court’s ruling.

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Why COVID-19 Is the Great Unequalizer

Released for Syndication: 05/06/2020

The pandemic’s impact is being experienced disproportionately by minorities and the poor.

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Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same

Released for Syndication: 04/28/2020

The upheavals in the oil market are flipping the world on its head and again proving that rational industrial policy is a better guidance.

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Become a Manufacturing Powerhouse in 2020—An Economic Recipe for Our Times

Released for Syndication: 04/22/2020

Local content requirements, tariffs and quotas are all ideas to be considered, as geopolitical concerns begin to supersede free-trade ideology.

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Last Chance to Save the Euro?

Released for Syndication: 04/08/2020

The actions taken so far to “save” the single-currency union expose its fatal flaws—it will take historic action to save it.

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