Foreign Exchange Swaps: Hidden Debt, Lurking Vulnerability
How hidden foreign exchange swaps contribute to financial fragility.
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400 Million Locked Down in China To Fight Coronavirus
Another estimate of the severity and potential broader impact of the coronavirus.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Two: Profits and Cash Flow Keep Deteriorating as Uber’s GAAP Losses Hit $8.5 Billion
Dissecting how Uber spun its 2019 financial reports. The actual results continue to be ugly, with no path to profit.
Read more...Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
Fed tightening is no longer needed to create recessions, given fragile credit structures and a growing pandemic out of China.
Read more...US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
Read more...Secular Stagnation: Demand Is Indeed the Culprit
Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.
Read more...Coronavirus: Not Looking Good
Coronavirus updates.
Read more...Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast
TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.
Read more...China Coronavirus Watch: Updated – Another Chinese City Locked Down to Prevent Spread
A compilation of what seems to be known about the new Chinese coronavirus.
Read more...Precarity: A Political Problem
‘Free market’ advocates claim that the rise of precarity was inevitable, as opposed to the result of political decisions.
Read more...The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
The myth of magical CEOs seems to break down in the public sector.
Read more...Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead
In an uncertain economic context, the Conservative election win means a loss for health and the environment.
Read more...Inequality and Trade: Simulation Evidence for 54 Developing Nations
A full-throated defense of more liberalized trade for developing nations…when the data is somewhat mixed.
Read more...Oil and Gas Emissions Are Reversing Progress from Coal’s Decline
More grim emissions news….
Read more...Reports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar
Another KHN scoop on how the FDA has been hiding reports of bad outcomes with medical devices, in this case, ones for heart disease.
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