Awfully late in the game, CalPERS finally tries to ‘splain its private equity plans. The giant fund only digs its hole deeper.
Read more...Sadly, an upbeat take on what “green” policies might means for jobs greatly understates the depth of economic restructuring needed to reduce the pace of climate change.
Read more...The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action on climate change is needed
Read more...Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...Some economists contend that machine learning and AI can improve economics.
Read more...Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...Fake unicorns are a real problem for the venture capital industry.
Read more...Some emerging-market economies look wobbly. How likely are we to see more crises?
Read more...What role did the state of the economy likely play in the midterm results?
Read more...A new study on stock price performance undermines conventional thinking.
Read more...Even with health care polling as the top issue with voters, Trump is one of the loudest, but far from the only, politician out to demonize single payer.
Read more...The way economists think about the value of lives influences health care policy, and some of their ideas may be producing bad outcomes.
Read more...Explaining a fundamental error in a widely-touted paper on HAMP modifications.
Read more...Some of the analytical sleights of hand used to promote the ideology of financializatation.
Read more...How a new paper on HAMP manages, by not understanding the program. to whitewash it as well as promote financialization.
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