Student Debt Bondage Becoming More Widespread
More sobering news on the student debt front.
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The Effectiveness of Large-Scale Asset Purchases
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Read more...Ending the Evil of Student Loans
A set of proposals on how to reduce the damage done by the overhang of student loans.
Read more...Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now
Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.
Read more...Why Hysteria Over the Italian Budget Is Wrong-Headed
A critique of the bad-model-induced fear-mongering over Italy’s proposed budget deficits
Read more...Costing the Country: Britain’s Finance Curse
More discussion of the downside of having too much finance.
Read more...Toys ‘R’ Us to Come Back from the Dead
Toys ‘R’ Us will be back, albeit in a skinnied down form.
Read more...Disaster Profiteers vs. the People of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico shows how distress and grifting too often go hand in hand.
Read more...Why Dodd-Frank Is a Protection Racket for Banks
How Dodd-Frank left banks’ massive lending and safety-net subsidies intact.
Read more...The Bank of International Settlement’s Claudio Borio, Who Warned About the Crisis, Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick
BIS chief economist Claudio Borio warns that central bankers have overdone the liquidity party, and investors are not being paid enough to take ris
Read more...Does the U.S. Have the Ingredients to Win a Trade War?
In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation.
Read more...Post Crisis Measures Have Failed to Tame Derivatives Risks
Derivatives remain an untamed systemic risk.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Lehman 10th Anniversary Spin as a Teachable Moment
Why you should take conventional wisdom about the Lehman collapse and the crisis with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis
How to combat the mental health toll of struggling with student debt.
Read more...Double Whammy: Implicit Subsidies and the Great Financial Crisis
Follow the subsidies, and you will understand why we had the crisis and why not enough has been done to prevent a recurrence.
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