Struggling but Stuck in Rural America
The Wall Street Journal describes why it’s so hard to escape struggling rural towns. Too bad its readers will hear none of it.
Read more...The Wall Street Journal describes why it’s so hard to escape struggling rural towns. Too bad its readers will hear none of it.
Read more...An update on Republican tax cut plans, and why they are economic chicanery.
Read more...Unfortunately, redoing NAFTA in a way that benefits US workers is not a trivial task.
Read more...In case you doubted it, diminished antitrust enforcement, a rise in monopolies, and increased inequality are related developments.
Read more...CFPB director Richard Corday’s failure to push for a payday lending rule earlier means we’ll see no rule, for the indefinite future.
Read more...Discusses broader economic effects of gross income inequality– driven by obscene CEO pay rises.
Read more...America is undergoing a retail sector crisis, partly related to the increase of competition from online commerce. We review this debate.
Read more...California to lower passing score for its state bar to increase; Judge Posner suggests Supreme Court seats should be open to non-lawyers.
Read more...Environmental, labour, and community efforts meshed in working-class Tonawanda to create plan for future after its coal-fired plant closed.
Read more...A fine, high level description of the retirement problem in the US, coupled with a not-as-stellar remedy.
Read more...Trump’s Wall Street allies are pleased that the press isn’t paying much attention to market froth and rising debt as he pushes deregulation.
Read more...Bernanke is selling the idea that things aren’t that bad….which is true if you are in the top 20%, which he also kinda acknowledges…
Read more...Showing how using default models for labor markets is a dumb idea.
Read more...A Swedish study has some novel findings on the relationship between crime and poverty.
Read more...Populist movements are the regular result of trade-induced economic dislocations and distribution. So why were economists surprised?
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