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Puerto Rico was already in trouble after suffering a “lost decade” without economic growth after 2005, leading to a default on its public debt and mass migration from the island. That was before Hurricane Maria.

Would the US be better off helping stabilize the Chinese economy, rather than gearing up for a trade war?

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The Communist Manifesto not only foresaw today’s predatory and polarized global capitalism but shows that we have the power to create a better world, says the radical former Greek Finance Minister in his introduction to a reissue of the Manifesto.