What Influence Does Wall Street Have Over Candidates Clinton and Sanders?
Clinton plays with figures to understate her degree of Wall Street campaign support, and that ignores past support to the Clinton Foundation.
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How Prefunding Retiree Health Benefits Impacts the Postal Service’s Bottom Line – and How Brookings Got it Wrong
Exposing the serious numerical and conceptual flaws of yet another study that uses the trumped-up claim that the Postal Service is trouble to justify dismembering it.
Read more...White America’s Toxic Ignorance: Abigail Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the Real Privilege That Goes Unspoken
The fact that Scalia argues against affirmative action comes close to serving as proof that it is sound policy, or at least less bad than the alternatives.
Read more...The Fed’s New “Operation Twist”: Twisted Logic for Bank Profits at the Expense of the Real Economy
How did Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve justify their rate increase now, despite strong signs that there is little economic basis for doing so?
Call this an exercise in twisted logic, plain and simple.
Read more...Ilargi: Marine Le Pen Will Reap What The EU Has Sown
Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.
Read more...Debunking “The Big Short”: How Michael Lewis Turned the Real Villains of the Crisis into Heroes
How Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, whether for profit or by accident, has denied the public the truth about what really causes the crisis.
Read more...How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide
On how race plays into the operation of a “dual economy”.
Read more...Our Bloomberg Op-Ed on CalPERS’ Plan to Get Rid of Private Equity Risk by Ignoring It
CalPERS’ plan to eliminate the measurement of private equity risk, a seismic change, is a case study in how staff manipulates the board to its own advantage.
Read more...The Puzzle of Technical Dis-Employment and Productivity Slowdown
How can recent technical change could both be a major source of dis-employment and not be associated with productivity improvement?
Read more...The Importance of Wealth Concentration and Why It is So Difficult to Measure
As bad as available data says wealth concentration is, it is probably even worse.
Read more...Bond, Treasury Bond: 007 is Out of Cash, but Your Government Can’t Be
So now even austerity is getting product placement in movies….
Read more...Gaius Publius: How to Think About the Paris Climate Talks
The Paris climate talks are destined to be too little, too late, and here is a framework for understanding why.
Read more...New Studies: Do ‘Competitive’ Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Growth?
A new study devastates the widely-touted claim that corporate tax cuts promote growth.
Read more...“Failed: What the ‘Experts’ Got Wrong about the Global Economy”
An excerpt from CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot’s important new book, Failed.
Read more...CalPERS Used Sleight of Hand, Accounting Tricks, to Make False “There is No Alternative” Claim for Private Equity
CalPERS staff and outside experts went to considerable lengths distort data and abuse analytical methods to make the case that only private equity could offer the allegedly superior returns needed to meet CalPERS’ targets. The fact that CalPERS did not make an honest case for private equity suggests that no honest case could be made.
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