BIS chief economist Claudio Borio warns that central bankers have overdone the liquidity party, and investors are not being paid enough to take ris
Read more...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be in the limelight. Is she getting her political footing yet? And will she live up to her “democratic socialist” brand, or is she getting more cozy than necessary with establishment Democrats?
Read more...The upcoming IPCC report overview is being airbrushed so as to cut unwarranted slack to developed economies.
Read more...In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation.
Read more...How Britain’s system of offshore finance and tax havens developed and preserved the UK’s role as the largest player in international finance.
Read more...Debunking the misconceptions about the role of debt of a currency issuer like the US or UK.
Read more...How “Green New Deal” proponents repeat the intellectual errors made by the critics of the 1970s Limits to Growth studies.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses the economic impact of not writing down debts in the wake of the crisis.
Read more...The UK focuses on the tax gap, how much tax it ought to be collecting versus what it gets. Why isn’t this a concern in the US?
Read more...Why you should take conventional wisdom about the Lehman collapse and the crisis with a fistful of salt.
Read more...A reminder that the budgetary “paying for things” framing is a way to deny resources to citizens.
Read more...Central banks need to stop fighting the last war.
Read more...Follow the subsidies, and you will understand why we had the crisis and why not enough has been done to prevent a recurrence.
Read more...A look at real earnings data belies happy talk about wage gains.
Read more...Gerald Epstein dissects the Trump Administration happy talk about the state of the economy.
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