The Full Case Against Ultra Low and Negative Interest Rates
Why unprecedentedly low and negative nterest rates will probably not stimulate demand and may even threaten financial stability.
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Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts: It Is Time To Remove The Debt Barrier To Economic Growth
Why it’s time for a widespread debt writedown.
Read more...The Long Term Damage of Economic Downturns
As the well off sail on, either unaffected by or profiting from Covid’s impact, for many, the economic damage is severe and lasting.
Read more...New York City Lost a Record 631,000 Jobs to the Pandemic in 2020. So What’s Next?
A look at the raw numbers behind the pain of New York City’s biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Read more...Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology.
Read more...Brazil’s Catastrophic Management of COVID-19 Threatens the Entire World
Bolosonaro is responsible for Brasil’s botched Covid response. But the consequences extent far beyond the country’s borders.
Read more...Why the U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance Is Essential for U.S. Survival
Maintaining and reviving manufacturing capacity in key insutries is vital to preserving jobs and ensuring U.S. survival.
Read more...Covid Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways
The more experts look at Covid, the more they seem to come up with new questions rather than answers.
Read more...Covid Baby Bust Has Governments Rattled
A falloff in baby production has capitalists very worried.
Read more...RIP Gold. Killed by Bitcoin
Inflationistas have abandoned gold and moved on to a new fetish.
Read more...The Climate Crisis, Rationing and Conscription
Has the time come for the brute force approach to combatting climate change of rationing.
Read more...Why Black and Hispanic Small-Business Owners Have Been So Badly Hit in the Pandemic Recession
Another setback for minority communities: their business owners have taken disproportionate hits in the pandemic.
Read more...Ilargi: But….Then There’s the [Lithium] Math
EV fans ignores the lack of enough lithium to meet projected sales with current technology. Will the next big thing arrive soon enough?
Read more...Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon.
Read more...Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 6 – U.S. Airlines Lost Over $35 Billion in 2020
The airline biz is on track to being America’s biggest welfare queen.
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