Even as evidence mounts that moving faster to clean energy sources would benefit businesses and the planet, the usual suspects fight back.
Read more...Rising energy prices in the US look set to go higher.
Read more...A look at how Covid has damaged the economy and estimating the effect.
Read more...Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Read more...Whether by accident or design, the implosion of China’s Evergrande will take some air out of its inflated real estate sector. What then?
Read more...Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
Read more...Seniors are destined to lose ground with cost of living increases, but how badly will they lag with 2022’s seemingly large boost?
Read more...A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...An increase in perceived uncertainty does indeed increase the value of waiting, thus reducing job creation.
Read more...From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?
Read more...Anti-monopoly interests have proposed a series of bills to give regulators more power, particularly with respect to tech.
Read more...Back to the future! Welcome to the successor to a 19th century favorite, watered stock.
Read more...Soros has a hissy over China’s Xi no longer wanting to play nicely with foreign investors.
Read more...On how imperialism enabled exploitation of labor in the global South, and then pressure on worker wages in advanced economies.
Read more...The Fed will trim back its stimulus, but it’s already pumped up markets and the unwind will be too little and too slow.
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