Fiscal Austerity and the Rise of the Nazis
Local economic data and election results in Weimar Germany shows that more acute austerity led to more Nazi support.
Read more...Local economic data and election results in Weimar Germany shows that more acute austerity led to more Nazi support.
Read more...Some good work on monopoly is marred by the bizarre inclusion of Uber. Its predatory pricing is the result of deep pockets and ideology, not potential market power.
Read more...Renters and landlords need to come to terms in the Covid-19 new normal. But it’s not shaping up to be pretty.
Read more...A spike in mortgage delinquencies says more bad results are coming, particularly with no new stimulus in sight.
Read more...The New York City budget hole is getting bigger. How much of a harbinger is this for other US cities?
Read more...As lower and middle income Americans slide into dire straits thanks to Covid-19, political pressure is building. But are Americans capable of rebellion?
Read more...Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.
Read more...How the Bakken oil boom, particularly hasty development and transport by rail, was destined to create an environmental hangover…..and no one bothered to prevent it.
Read more...Debunking Bernanke’s pet excuse for the global financial crisis, the savings glut hypothesis, which of course exculpates the Fed.
Read more...Covid-19 still stalks the land and winter is coming.
Read more...The higher rate of black deaths to Covid-19 appears due to higher infection rates. That suggests that work and living conditions put them much more at risk.
Read more...No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
Read more...Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.
Read more...Financial regulators still don’t like to tame bubbles even after seeing how costly it is when they go boom. Shame, that.
Read more...An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
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