Bill Black: Mankiw’s Mythical Ten Commandments of Theoclassical Economics
Examining Maniw’s core myths, um, principles, and how they are dangerously misleading.
Read more...Category Archives: Dubious statistics
After Distancing Herself From Bill Clinton’s Economic Policies, Hillary Wants Him as Mr. Economic Fix It
Like the Bourbons, the Clintons appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Read more...Democratic Establishment’s Thuggish Power Grab at Nevada Convention
The Democratic party establishment shows its true colors in Nevada.
Read more...Inflation Targeting and Neoliberalism, Part 2
Why inflation targeting is a destructive practice.
Read more...Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating
New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.
Read more...Germany Blinks on Giving Debt Relief to Greece….or Did It?
Despite press reports to the contrary, in this year’s game of chicken over the Greek bailout, it looks like the IMF, and not Germany, blinked.
Read more...The Minimum Wage Increases = Job Loss Myth
Repeat after me: study after study shows that minimum wages increases don’t lead to job losses.
Read more...Inflation Targeting and Neoliberalism
An interview on inflation targeting and its implications.
Read more...Naked Capitalism’s Diptherio Discusses Flaws in Unemployment Reporting
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, unemployment report style.
Read more...When Commodity Prices Fall
Decomposing the drivers and effects of commodity price swings.
Read more...Don Quijones: Wrath of Draghi Hits Germans Who Refuse to Blow Their Savings
Draghi plans to beat savers until morale improves.
Read more...Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations
In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Watch Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Phil Gramm Have a Love Fest Over Repeal of Glass Steagall
Watch Bill Clinton heart financiers in 1998 and try to take it back in 2013.
Read more...Should Banks Be Worried About Apple Pay?
Will Apple Pay eat retail payment systems?
Read more...