Steve Keen: Zombie-to-Be Economies and the Walking Dead of Debt Include China, South Korea, Canada, Finland
Steve Keen’s macroeconomic model allows him to identify zombies-in-the-making. It’s not pretty.
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Investment Case Study: Some Oxford Dons Take Skeptical Look at Yale and Canadian Investment Fads, Um, Models
Believe it or not, a case study on major approaches to investing that is both informative and fun to read.
Read more...Michael Pettis: China – How Much Investment is Optimal?
If China’s very low level of social capital has long ago made its investment strategy obsolete, that suggests that China has overinvested beyond its capacity to utilize these investments economically. Thus there are hidden losses on bank balance sheets created by the failure to write down physical capital to its true value. In this case Chinese growth cannot help but drop significantly as these losses are finally recognized and as investment levels are sharply curtailed.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: The US in the Middle East – “There Is No Strategy”
At best, the US is waging a war of attrition in the Middle East. And we ignore the fact that people in that part of the world hold grudges for centuries.
Read more...CalPERS Uses Unqualified “Expert” to Validate Its London-Whale-Style Deficient Risk Management
CalPERS tells its board that the very same lax risk management oversight structure that led to the London Whale fiasco is “best practice” when it clearly isn’t.
Read more...New IMF Paper Challenges Neoliberal Orthodoxy
A new IMF paper takes on some neoliberal sacred cows.
Read more...How the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Myth Weakens Companies and Economic Systems
A multi-level, biological perspective on business shows how simple-minded ideas like “maximize shareholder value” and tolerating predators aredestructive.
Read more...Economics for the Rest of Us Explains NAIRU, Including Its Political Implications
An explanation of NAIRU for novices, as well as a discussion of its politics.
Read more...Why US Cities Are Segregated by Race: New Evidence on the Role of ‘White Flight’
Segregation started earlier in the US than most studies assume.
Read more...Bogus Defenses of Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions
How corporate executives mislead the public about the economic effects of inversions and other tax strategies that book profits overseas.
Read more...Gerald Friedman: How the Dogmatic Despair of Mainstream Economists Brought You Donald Trump
Mainstream economists to ordinary citizens: Drop dead. Or more accurately: Sorry, nothing more can be done for you. There is No Alternative.
Read more...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...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.
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