Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists
The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
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CalPERS’ Three Card Monte: Makes Unheard of Benchmark Change to Hide Expected Poor Private Equity Performance to Help Staff at Expense of Beneficiaries, California Taxpayers
Yet again, CalPERS is trying to use optics and dodgy reporting to cover up for real problems.
Read more...Improving Patient Care Using Clinical Guidelines and Judgement
Questioning whether enforcement of clinical guidelines and evidence-based medicine produces better patient outcomes.
Read more...Ilargi: The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom
A skeptical look at a defense of stock market valuations.
Read more...World Bank Must Stop Encouraging Harmful Tax Competition
The World Bank manages to make the IMF look good…..
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Cheap Sexism and Intellectual Dishonesty about Marriage
A mini-tour of right wing phantasmagora about how oversexed men and insufficiently chaste women are the ruination of the economy.
Read more...Bill Black: Marriage and the Jobs Guarantee
Conservatives are trying to blame low rates of marriage among the young on anything but the state of the economy and the job market.
Read more...Employment in Europe and the US: Debunking the Story of EU Weakness and US Strength
Why the EU has done better on job creation than generally recognized, while US employment is exaggerated.
Read more...Taxcast: Hurricanes, Disaster Capitalism, Bitcoin and Over-Reliance on Unhelpful Economic Measures
On Tax Justice Network’s Taxcast, John Christensen and Daniel Mugge weigh in on hurricanes, tax havens, and disaster capitalism.
Read more...The Sickness of American Healthcare
Some key facts that have been omitted from the debate over Obamacare and healthcare generally, apparently by design.
Read more...North Korea: Are Sanctions Working?
Experts have said a military response North Korea’s belligerence is not viable. Is the current economic approach likely to succeed?
Read more...Another Way the Rich Preserve Their Advantage: Grade Inflation in Private Schools
Private school grade inflation is a small but nevertheless telling factor in how class mobility has fallen in the US.
Read more...Flagging Productivity Growth – How Much Is Due to Bad Management?
Have management fads contributed to the fall in productivity growth?
Read more...Wolf Richter: How Banks Hurt the Real Economy – FDIC’s Hoenig to Senate
The FDIC’s Tom Hoenig takes up the thankless task of shellacking the latest self-serving whinge from Jamie Dimon.
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