Mirabile Dictu: Lead Story at Bloomberg Gives a Thumbs Up to MMT
Bloomberg gives a fairminded and reasonably detailed report on MMT.
Read more...Bloomberg gives a fairminded and reasonably detailed report on MMT.
Read more...Boom Bust Boom a wickedly funny but mind-expanding analysis of 2008 crisis driven by the proposition that the capitalist system is inherently unstable.
Read more...Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...Krugman shifts ground (yet again) as hostility to the negative effects of trade deals appears to be a big component of Sanders’ Michigan upset
Read more...Gerald Friedman explains that the difference between his results and that of the Romers on the Sanders plan is the result of using different models.
Read more...Jamie Galbraith discusses in some detail why Gerald Friedman, a Clinton supporter who gave a favorable review of Sanders’ economic plan, is owed an apology by his detractors.
Read more...How have prediction markets done versus the pundits in forecasting the 2016 elections so far?
Read more...James Galbraith examines the used forecast by Christine Romer and David Romer to attack Gerald Friedman’s favorable review of Sanders’ plan. He’d already shellacked the methodology in a 2014 book.
Read more...A new survey suggests that negative rates will be counterproductive. Consumers will not spend more, as central banks wish, but will hoard.
Read more...Krugman has really lost it.
Read more...Krugman has made maliciously false statements about economics professor Gerald Friedman. Demand that the New York Times issue a correction and that Krugman apologize.
Read more...Franco Modigliani foresaw how the ECB and the Eurozone architecture had an anti-growth bias and proposed remedies that were ignored.
Read more...How to make the housing market conform to mainstream economists’ ideals.
Read more...Please watch the winning entries in Econ4’s video contest on the topic of greed.
Read more...Yet more funny forecasts from the CBO telling you why you can’t have nice things, like a better job market.
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