Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction
If poverty is falling, why you should still care about what happens to inequality.
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Disaster Profiteers vs. the People of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico shows how distress and grifting too often go hand in hand.
Read more...Why the Distribution of Wealth Has More to Do With Power Than Productivity
How statistics about wealth mislead, and why that matters.
Read more...Steve Keen: How Economics Became a Cult
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 Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
The fracking industry’s wastewater disposal is an unrecognized production and economic problem that is going from bad to worse.
Read more...Why Dodd-Frank Is a Protection Racket for Banks
How Dodd-Frank left banks’ massive lending and safety-net subsidies intact.
Read more...The Bank of International Settlement’s Claudio Borio, Who Warned About the Crisis, Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick
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...CalPERS’ CEO Marcie Frost’s History of Embellishment and Poor Management Goes Back to Washington
Yet more confirmation of our findings regarding CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s record of misrepresentations.
Read more...Why the “Green New Deal” Is a Headfake
How “Green New Deal” proponents repeat the intellectual errors made by the critics of the 1970s Limits to Growth studies.
Read more...J.D. Alt: Paying for Hurricanes
A reminder that the budgetary “paying for things” framing is a way to deny resources to citizens.
Read more...Census Bureau Reveals Grim Facts about Real Earnings of Men
A look at real earnings data belies happy talk about wage gains.
Read more...The Economy Under Trump: Business Optimism Combined with Inequality
Gerald Epstein dissects the Trump Administration happy talk about the state of the economy.
Read more...Michael Olenick: Debunking Yet Another Misleading Gun Study
A gun “study” falls apart when given a cursory examination.
Read more...Why Positive Thinking Won’t Get You Out of Poverty
The New York Times condescends to people in poverty.
Read more...Fighting Opioid and Painkiller Addiction
How the misapplication of an early study on opioid addiction risk help pave the way for overly-casual prescription of these drugs.
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