Not surprisingly, given economic weakness in Europe and China plus Trump trade war saber-rattling, the Fed seems less gung ho about the health of the economy than it was last summer.
Read more...Opioid abuse has strong economic roots, namely despair resulting from desperation in struggling communities.
Read more...The gilet jaunes movement proves that France’s political and budgetary centralism, the source of citizens’ feelings of abandonment and revolt, must be reformed.
Read more...A recent Wall Street Journal article that tried debunking MMT effectively supported it.
Read more...Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths.
Read more...A worrying update about China’s corporate debt.
Read more...Everyone around her is so weak that May still is very much in charge of Brexti, and that’t not a good outcome.
Read more...The challenge of suburbs for social and environmental policy.
Read more...A new Economic Policy Institute report also debunks the myth that raising the federal minimum wage primarily helps teenagers working for spending money
Read more...Economists weigh in on the tax proposals by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren.
Read more...Italy pushes for some bold banking reforms….but how far can it get given the wobbly state of its banks and ECB hostility?
Read more...An in-depth look at the “peak oil” thesis and how well its predictions are playing out.
Read more...China gets a cold and California real estate gets pneumonia.
Read more...An Australian perspective on the West’s growing conflict with China.
Read more...Central bankers pursue a “neutral” rate that doesn’t exist.
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