Who Holds All These US Treasuries? Update on the Investors in the Ballooning US National Debt in Q2
As the Fed unloads Treasuries, others are purchasing them…including foreign central banks.
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How Cities Run Dry
How afflicted cities are trying to cope with water shortages.
Read more...What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Debunking Big Pharma whinging over Inflation Reduction Act drug price negotiations.
Read more...Fog of (Dis)Information in Escalating Israel-Lebanon Conflict
Some updates on the escalating Israel-Lebanon conflict and on the poor state of reporting.
Read more...Links 9/24/2024
Days After Rate Cut, S&P’s Flash PMI Sees Rising Inflation and Exhorts the Fed to “Move Cautiously” with “Further Rate Cuts”
S&P: “The “reacceleration of inflation” suggests “the Fed cannot totally shift its focus away from its inflation target.”
Read more...Closing the Health Gap: How Chronic Illness Drives Health Inequality Early On
A look at how chronic disease by age and income cohort affects health inequality.
Read more...The Fed’s Reactive-Looking Half-Point Rate Cut
The Fed’s half point rate reduction was unseemly large. What gives?
Read more...Cheapflation and the Rise of Inflation Inequality in 2021-2023
Big companies victimized poor consumers via cheapflation: imposing greater price increases on low price goods than higher priced items
Read more...BRICS and De-Dollarization: An Alternative or Potential Disaster?
A discussion of some proposals for the BRICS de-dollarization project, suggesting a lack of convergence of ideas among key players.
Read more...Links 9/21/2024
An American Coup?
Did the US armed services refuse to execute an order by Biden, which would amount to a coup, or is the story more complex?
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