Analysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Why the way economists think about wealth is too narrow, and how to start to remedy that.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Links 4/25/18
Was Finland’s Universal Basic Income Program A Failure?
A look at the results of recent basic income experiments.
Read more...The U.S. Border as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice
Despite Trump’s braying about it, the militarization of the US border has been an ongoing project.
Read more...5 Policies That Could Improve Housing for the Renting Generation
Housing has become a more divisive issue than ever, as rising real estate costs and less job stability make buying a house both harder and more fraught. Renters need better protections, but how to get there?
Read more...Marx and Modern Microeconomics
Marx gets some long-overdue credit.
Read more...Links 4/24/18
TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth Day; Customers Locked Out of Accounts, Getting Into Other People’s Accounts, Getting Bogus Data
An epic IT disaster at the UK’s TSB illustrates how fragile banking systems are.
Read more...Bill Mitchell: QE Failed in Japan
A short and devastating proof that QE was a bust in Japan.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How the Democrats Could, and Probably Will, Blow 2020
How the Democrats are conspiring to snatch defeat from the jaws of a 2020 victory.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Brexit, Security, and the UK’s Coming Poodledom
Adding to the tally of how the UK will come out a loser thanks to Brexit.
Read more...Middle East Nightmare, Made in Washington
How the US is at risk of creating Armageddon in the Middle East.
Read more...Another Naked Capitalism Milestone: 20,000 Posts and Counting!
Naked Capitalism blasts through another milestone!
Read more...Links 4/21/18
Can Nudging Become A New Road To Serfdom?
Nudging and soft authoritarianism…
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