The Truth About China’s Economy: Debunking Western Media Myths
The second of a two-part discussion on whither China’s economy, emphasizing where the Western press and pundits are off base.
Read more...The second of a two-part discussion on whither China’s economy, emphasizing where the Western press and pundits are off base.
Read more...The Financial Times debunks private equity flim-flammery even as CalPERS and others sign up for more.
Read more...Why growth is no panacea.
Read more...A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.
Read more...Victoria Nuland is leaving but sadly the considerable damage she has done will endure.
Read more...A thorough takedown of the aggressively-sold falsehood that economic performance under Biden is good but the poors are too stupid to get it.
Read more...Even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.
Read more...Corporate greedflation is squeezing household budgets and distorting the economy. But is tacit support for it really a one-party affair?
Read more...How war spending serves as a cover for the distribution of pork at the expense of American needs.
Read more...The Financial Times report on the fall of Israel’s economy in the fourth quarter was briefly the lead story and was oddly shuffled quickly off the landing page. The article gives a terse but incomplete tally of the factors that contributed to a decline at a 20% rate in the final quarter, which was markedly […]
Read more...A revealing, and not at all in a good way, discussion of private equity by departing CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman.
Read more...Why the Fed’s approach to inflation has the main effect of reducing labor bargaining power, which is seldom the real problem.
Read more...Sustainable fund managers have discredited the sector by being way too company-friendly, such as accepting greenwashing claims.
Read more...Big Ag price gouging is driving still elevated grocery store prices. When will that become a political issue?
Read more...The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
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