A look at the overly-large, internally conflicted role of the Federal Reserve and Trump’s dodgy aims in trying to bring it under his control.
Read more...More on the prospects for the dollar. Even under Trump, it remains the cleanest shirt in the laundry bin.
Read more...It has gotten through to Trump that the state of the economy, and particularly consumer suffering from persistently high costs, aka the affordability crisis, can’t be solved by his barker’s patter about how great things are. So he’s roused himself to try to find some quick and easy wins so he can present himself as […]
Read more...How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Read more...Unpacking the much-ado-about-nothing over year-end use of the Fed’s pet liquidity-providing mechanism, its standing repo facility.
Read more...The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.
Read more...Shadow banks, rebranded as anodyne “non-bank financial institutions” are larger than ever and pose a threat in a new financial crisis
Read more...Some important second-order effects of greater AI use, such as greater ease of perpetrating fraud and what might responses might be
Read more...Yes, corporate Democrats did indeed grease the skids for Trump’s presidency, but the key misdeeds go back to Obama.
Read more...More discussion of how the UK’s post World War II decline was a choice, due in large measure to the embrace of finance and neoliberalism.
Read more...And now how exactly does it plan to ready for war?
Read more...Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
Read more...The Taxcast goes to West Yorkshire in the North of England to see social reuse of seized assets in action.
Read more...The Trump/Pulte 50 year mortgage scheme is indeed really bad even before getting to the fact that it would probably increase home prices.
Read more...The Wall Street Journal does its readers no favors in its whole-hog adoption of the fraud spin in ‘splaining high profile loan losses.
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