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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Which Industries Lost Jobs, Which Gained Jobs: Longer-Term Employment Trends in Charts
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Social policy, The dismal science
Posted by Lambert Strether at 7:29 am | 10 Comments »
Links 5/5/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 235 Comments »
‘Absurd!’: US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time
“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:45 am | 44 Comments »
Are the BRICS and Their New Development Bank Offering Alternatives to the World Bank, the IMF?
An assessment of how far BRICS has gotten in creating new monetary arrangements and institutions. The short version is “not very”.
Topics: Africa, Banking industry, China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, India, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:20 am | 12 Comments »
Links 5/4/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 285 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Bragg’s theory of the case:: section 17-152, sodium batteries, Google up-ranking big media sites using AI-generated content ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 119 Comments »
The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap
More and more EU voters are rejecting the Union, as some like to call it. Economic malaise looks to be a big reason why.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 41 Comments »
Links 5/3/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 244 Comments »
Tony Blair and His Associates Are Waiting in the Wings to Take Back Power in UK
Blair is closer than ever to regaining political power, albeit through a proxy Labour government led by Keir Starmer. The beauty (for Blair) is that he will be able to continue expanding his global political consulting empire at the same time.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 42 Comments »
Turkiye Suspends All Trade With Israel in Surprise New Blow; Israel Threatens Retaliation
Turkiye is kicking Israel in a weak spot: its economy. How much might this trade freeze hurt?
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Middle East, Politics, Turkey
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:13 am | 71 Comments »
Taxing Income from Wealth Can Always Raise More Money Than a Wealth Tax
Why a wealth tax is not all it is cracked up to be, but a well-designed income tax can do a fine job of curtailing wealth disparity.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:17 am | 51 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/2/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing deaths, Trump nostalgia, news from the encampments ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 49 Comments »
After Much Posturing, US Imposes (So Far) Underwhelming Sanctions Against China for Russia Trade
After sending Yellen and Blinken to China to make threats, the Administration has imposed some strikingly weak sanctions
Topics: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:09 pm | 43 Comments »
Links 5/2/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 237 Comments »
Oh Deary, Where Did My Rate Cuts Go? Fed’s Wait-and-See Now Entrenched? And Suddenly Lots of Talk About “Rate Hikes”
What Fed chair Powell said about rate hikes, no rate cuts, rate cuts, and the QT slowdown while getting rid of MBS entirely
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Macroeconomic policy, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:58 am | 32 Comments »