Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance
Why economists’ thinking about growth may be entirely backward.
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Jim Chanos: U.S. Economy is Worse Than You Think
Famed short seller Jim Chanos gives a hard look at America’s fundamentals. He is not impressed by what he sees.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: How Many People Will Obamacare and AHCA Kill?
Subjecting Obamacare to the same measuring stick that the Center for American Progress applied to the ACHA.
Read more...CalPERS to Game Benchmarks Yet Again to Flatter Private Equity, Understate Risk, Boost Staff Bonuses
CalPERS is lying with numbers yet again, this time with its private equity benchmarks.
Read more...No, Record Jobs Openings in JOLTS Do Not Mean That Everything Is Teh Awesome!
A look at the latest not-as-rosy-as-it-seems jobs data release.
Read more...Final UK Election Polls: YouGov Still the Outlier, Predicts Tories Get Only 302 Seats
Conventional wisdoms still pegs the Tories as comfortable winners in today’s election, with the election map working against Labour.
Read more...Slugging It Out With a New Contender in the GMOs Debate
One of the big benefits claimed for GMOs may be false.
Read more...Measuring the Impact of Immigration on Wages: The Mariel Boatlift Controversy
125,000 mainly low-skill Cuban immigrants arrived in Miami in 1980. Economists are still debating whether they lowered local wages.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: Data Contradicts Washington Post’s Social Security Disability Welfare Cheating Story
Debunking a Washington Post narrative on the Social Security Disability Income program.
Read more...Climate Change: “It Depends on How We They Value Time”
Why conventional economic approaches give dangerously misguided answers when applied to climate change.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...Some Public Pension Funds Taking on Outsized Private Equity and Hedge Fund Fees
Public pension funds might finally be getting over their unhealthy co-dependent relationships with private equity and hedge funds.
Read more...The Role of Social Security Wealth: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Germany and the US
Crunching some numbers on the value of social safety nets shows Americans are not as well off as pundits and pols would have you believe.
Read more...NY Times Lets a Charter School Propagandist Distort the Facts on Its Op-Ed Page
Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...Understanding Household Financial Distress: The Role of Noncognitive Abilities
A critical thinking exercise on a study that claims that psychological traits are linked to financial distress.
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