Trump v. the Postal Service: Fake News, Flawed Analysis, and Bogus Tweets
Why Trump’s claim that the Postal Service is subsidizing Amazon is all wet.
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Economists’ Dubious Relationship with Trade Policy: Comparative Advantage is a System that Works for the Wealthy
The great unwashed public has good reason to doubt what economists say about trade.
Read more...How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
Time to look harder at the reasons for rising opioid deaths.
Read more...Millennials Are Waiting For The End Of Capitalism
Not surprisingly, Millennials are not in very good financial shape…..
Read more...J.D. Alt: Fiat Money and Three Big Societal Challenges
How fiat money denialism, also know as austerity and deficit scaremongering, is undermining the public’s ability to tackle pressing challenges like climate change.
Read more...MIT Study: Median Uber and Lyft Profits Less Than Half Minimum Wage; 30% of Drivers Lose Money
Yes, it is now official: you really are engaged in exploitation when you use Uber or Lyft.
Read more...With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
Why has wage growth been lousy in a supposed recovery? Thank your politicians for fostering the growth of the precariat.
Read more...Dire Consequences of Ignoring Trade in Climate Change Targets: On Track to 3.5 C Temperature Increase by 2100
Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.
Read more...Government Shutdown Once Again Shows the Lies Behind Deficit Hysteria
How the wealthy use deficit scaremongering to keep wages down and stave off calls for more investment and social spending.
Read more...Why Is The Shale Industry Still Not Profitable?
A careful parsing of shale industry performance data indicates that the industry’s claims of productivity gains are overstated.
Read more...Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs
How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Read more...5 Ways Capitalist Logic Has Sabotaged the Scientific Community
A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...How Money Won Trump the White House
Contrary to media reports, Trump made significant contributions to his Presidential campaign.
Read more...A US Economic Boom in 2018?
Not that it comes as a surprise, but talk of the US economy being in a boom is hype.
Read more...Debunking Mainstream Economists on Secular Stagnation and the Loanable Funds Fallacy
An important, accessible takedown of the loanable funds theory, on which a ton of bad policy rests.
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