Death, Suicides, And The Pandemic Economy
The data on suicides and economic distress is more muddy than you’d expect.
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Heiner Flassbeck: The Euro Arrangement Is Faulty
Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits everywhere else and forbid the central bank from acting as the central bank of each Euro member.
Read more...COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
Yves here. Correlation is not causation, but the Wisconsin primary looks to have ushered in more Covid-19 infections. By Phillip Alvelda. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which […]
Read more...Political Scientist Tom Ferguson on Big Money and Social Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era
An incisive take from the no-holds-barred Tom Ferguson.
Read more...What Are the Three Concurrent Crises of the Coronavirus Depression?
Past theories of crises and why they matter now.
Read more...Study: Hunters Kill Birds During Their Annual Migrations Through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Study: hunters slaughter birds as the undertake their annual migrations in chokepoints along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Debt, Liberty and “Acts of God”
How ancient societies forgave debt that became unpayable due to circumstances outside the borrower’s control.
Read more...Food Security: Prince Charles Calls for Furloughed Workers to Pick Berries; My Thoughts as a Former Tomato Picker
Some thoughts from a former tomato picker – moi – on the call from Prince Charles for furloughed workers to help with the food harvest in Britain.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Week 9 of the Collapse of the U.S. Labor Market: Still Getting Worse at a Gut-Wrenching Pace
Thursday’s unemployment numbers show that the U.S. unemployment numbers have not yet bottomed out – and that instead, the problem is worsening at a gut-wrenching pace.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Have Merkel & Macron Just Announced a Eurobond-Funded Godsend for the EU?
There’s not a lot of there there in a proposed EU rescue scheme.
Read more...Climate Change: Hurricanes Getting Stronger; Cyclone Amphan Pummels Bengal
Study: climate change is worsening tropical storms. Cyclone Amphan is battering an India and Bangladesh locked down to slow COVID-19.
Read more...How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Eurozone
Without an agreed set of rules, the eurozone cannot be sustained. Ironically, as the EU’s biggest creditor, Germany stands to lose the most from its court’s ruling.
Read more...Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding
Neglecting facilities that serve Medicaid patients in the Covid-19 rescues puts health infrastructure for the poor at risk of collapse.
Read more...Brexit: Yet More Chicken
The same bad Brexit dynamics are very much in place.
Read more...Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Parsing some US coronavirus data.
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