More on the Economic Hardship of Young Adults
Young adults have had a very rough go and don’t have good reason to expect their economic condition to improve much.
Read more...Young adults have had a very rough go and don’t have good reason to expect their economic condition to improve much.
Read more...How uncertainty over the wisdom of the Fed starting to tighten in 2017 and its reading of Trump policies might impact other economies.
Read more...Why is the EU project in trouble and what might be done to fix it?
Read more...Comparative data on immigration doesn’t support the tidy economists’ story that it good for growth…at least not recently.
Read more...Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...When you’d thought the British had reached the limits of outlandishness on the Brexit front, they manage to outdo themselves.
Read more...Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Read more...The oh-so-clever Trump plan to use tax credits to fund infrastructure spending means it will be too small and slow to provide any real boost.
Read more...Looking at why Trump won and the implications for his presidency.
Read more...“Robots are coming for your job” may be more scare talk than reality, but instilling that belief helps weaken labor bargaining power.
Read more...Why oil prices will stay soft this year.
Read more...Why arguments against work are another manifestation of neoliberalism.
Read more...“Audit the Fed” is likely to become law. It’s about time.
Read more...Forecasts for the US depend heavily on what Trump might actually get done. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard thinks Mr. Market is out over his skis.
Read more...Some specifics of why political risk and central bank policy will make for a wild ride in 2017.
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