Young Voters, Victims of Neoliberalism, Pessimistic About the Future, Sour on Politics…As Officials Tell Them to Eat Statistics
A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.
Read more...A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.
Read more...While you were busy watching the wars, national elections or other distractions du jour, global warming keeps marching on.
Read more...Much higher interest rates – due to Western central banks – damage developing nations via prolonged debt distress and stagnation.
Read more...Looking at how Trump current rhetoric contrasts with his past actions, and why those actions are likely a better predictor.
Read more...High interest rates for Israeli bond offerings, plus mumble-shuffle by manager Goldman and the SEC, confirm investor doubts about its prospects
Read more...An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to prosper—and avoid the biggest mistakes.
Read more...Some at the Fed worry that the central bank can’t get the inflation genie back in the bottle.
Read more...Independent restaurants are in a world of hurt due to labor cost increases. Yet oddly no one seems willing to cite Long Covid as a contributor.
Read more...A thorough takedown of the aggressively-sold falsehood that economic performance under Biden is good but the poors are too stupid to get it.
Read more...Corporate greedflation is squeezing household budgets and distorting the economy. But is tacit support for it really a one-party affair?
Read more...UK and US policy are mean to the poor, even though that stinginess costs all of us.
Read more...The Financial Times report on the fall of Israel’s economy in the fourth quarter was briefly the lead story and was oddly shuffled quickly off the landing page. The article gives a terse but incomplete tally of the factors that contributed to a decline at a 20% rate in the final quarter, which was markedly […]
Read more...Why the Fed’s approach to inflation has the main effect of reducing labor bargaining power, which is seldom the real problem.
Read more...The risk of rolling financial/economic crises across much of the Global South is high and the pressures seem only to be rising.
Read more...Some concrete proposals for how to slip the yoke of neoliberalism and start building a fairer and more functional economy.
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