The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About the Fed’s New Credit Allocation Policy
Why using credit as an economic remedy evenutally does more harm than good.
Read more...Why using credit as an economic remedy evenutally does more harm than good.
Read more...Boris Johnson’s effort at a New Deal Big Lie goes splat.
Read more...The collapse of high-end freelance work isn’t just about the loss of incomes. If it persists long enough, it means the loss of capabilities.
Read more...A discussion of the state of capitailsm, with a European/Lebanase slant.
Read more...Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains why debt cancellation and turning banks into utilities is the only sound response to the cornacrisis.
Read more...Why investment in childcare and education provides high returns yet has been largely ignored in Covid-19 responses.
Read more...Potentially thousands of vacant hotel rooms in New York City alone are ripe for conversion into permanent residences, deputy mayor, housing groups and hotel owners agree.
Read more...More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.
Read more...A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
Read more...Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely?
Read more...Our Enlightenment predecessors recognized not one but five economies – and the pandemic has reinvigorated our taste for them.
Read more...An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City.
Read more...Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]
Read more...Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
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