Back From Full Employment To “Inclusive Growth”
“Inclusive growth” is economics NewSpeak for pretending to be concerned about the diminished opportunities for the middle and lower classes.
Read more...“Inclusive growth” is economics NewSpeak for pretending to be concerned about the diminished opportunities for the middle and lower classes.
Read more...Remedies have failed to produced growth and lower indebtedness because they’re focused on protecting toxic behavior by banks in Europe’s core
Read more...Any plan by Democrats to “Help Working People” should begin with the word “jobs.” But an obsession with austerity makes that impossible.
Read more...Saudi Arabia has finally blinked. What does that mean in practical terms?
Read more...Economists are finally ‘fessing up to the fact that macroeconomics was never all that good and has regressed in recent decades.
Read more...Why Uber’s goal is replacing urban car service with a higher cost, less efficient operation that would extract wealth from the public.
Read more...Will the failure of Renzi’s constitutional referendum and resulting political uncertainty finally force Italy’s banking crisis to a head?
Read more...Europe is ignoring the lessons of New Deal era much to its peril.
Read more...Why Uber does not have any significant competitive advantages save very deep pockets that allow it to engage in sustained predatory pricing.
Read more...A look at some of the economic and political issues related to globalization.
Read more...Why Uber is the taxi industry’s high cost producer and cannot grow into profitability.
Read more...Why have India’s citizens not reacted more forcefully to the huge disruption created by a misguided demonetization program?
Read more...Yet again, we ebunk the myth that tax gaming leads US companies to hoard cash overseas. Tax accounting has nada to do with where money sits.
Read more...Why Democrats like Howard Dean believe in and sell austerity snake oil.
Read more...Some forward-thinking oil producers are worried about peak demand. Are their concerns warranted?
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