Some back of the envelope estimates show that the economic cost of climate change is already cutting into growth in a big way….and it will only get much worse.
Read more...FICO is evil.
Read more...Novating UK derivatives contracts entered into by EU clearinghouse members is a ginormous mess, particularly in a Brexit crashout. But how serious a mess?
Read more...If poverty is falling, why you should still care about what happens to inequality.
Read more...Puerto Rico shows how distress and grifting too often go hand in hand.
Read more...How statistics about wealth mislead, and why that matters.
Read more...Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics and one of the few economists to foresee the crisis, explains what is wrong with the discipline.
Read more...The fracking industry’s wastewater disposal is an unrecognized production and economic problem that is going from bad to worse.
Read more...How Dodd-Frank left banks’ massive lending and safety-net subsidies intact.
Read more...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...Yet more confirmation of our findings regarding CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s record of misrepresentations.
Read more...How “Green New Deal” proponents repeat the intellectual errors made by the critics of the 1970s Limits to Growth studies.
Read more...A reminder that the budgetary “paying for things” framing is a way to deny resources to citizens.
Read more...A look at real earnings data belies happy talk about wage gains.
Read more...Gerald Epstein dissects the Trump Administration happy talk about the state of the economy.
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