A staple of the “Washington Consensus” that emerged in the 1980s was that “private industry is managed more efficiently than state enterprises,” because the threat of bankruptcy keeps ...

Racket.News Journalist Matt Taibbi spoke about Tulsi Gabbard starting the role of Director of National Intelligence as a ...

Does anyone remember the Washington Consensus? Such a phrase might seem odd in today’s world but in the early 1990’s the notion of a Washington Consensus was very powerful as a method for ...

At the same time, he and other framers of the statement say they are gratified that so many diverse and prestigious organizations have put their support behind the effort. "I guess I had hoped that ...

It is hard to draw a straight line between the mid-1990s creation of the World Trade Organization – with its clear ‘Washington Consensus’ views over the primacy of free trade – and the populist moment ...

The Buenos Aires meeting pretends to overshadow the "Washington Consensus" prevalent in the nineties and which is blamed in most of Latinamerica for the region's economic and social shortcomings.

For roughly a quarter century after the Cold War, the Washington consensus or neoliberalism guided US foreign economic policymaking. Today, that market-oriented consensus is in tatters, as Republicans ...