Category Archives: Economic fundamentals

Forget Lower Jobs Growth, The Number of People Who’ve Stopped Looking for Work Is Much More Worrisome

Why the jobs market isn’t as strong as the headline unemployment figures would have you believe.

Australia Is at War With Itself Over China

The Australian secuirty services are in open war against the Government over its pro-China policies.

China-Russia Partnership Threatens US Global Hegemony

America expected China to join the international economic community as a subordinate power, but China’s deals with Russia show China moving towards parity in economic and military sway.

Eight Reasons Why Inequality Ruins the Economy

Econimists have noticed, awfully late in the game, that high levels of inequality are correlated with lower growth. There are reasons to think this relationship is causal.

Seventeen Ways to Think About the Finance Curse

A recap of the issues surrounding the Finance Curse, the advanced economy economy analogy of the resource curse.

Chinese Embargo Threats Ring Hollow—the Reason Why Lies in Rare Earths

Supply chains are multinational in scope and supply. A trade embargo is ultimately self-defeating.

$1 Trillion: The Cost Of Climate Change For Corporations

Another effort to cost out some of the effects of climate change.

The Economic Cost of Devastating Hurricanes and Other Extreme Weather Events Is Even Worse Than We Thought

irming up the math on the economic cost of climate change makes a bad picture look worse.

Does Japan Do MMT?

In case you had any doubts, Japan is not following MMT economic policy prescriptions.

FANGMAN Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe” into Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

The authorities have come to realize that monopolists like Google and Amazon aren’t good for the health of the economy or even (despite their tech sheen) “innovation”.

Could Air Travel Become an Early Casualty of Climate Change?

Might air travel take a serious hit from climate change before polic-makers work up the nerve to intervene?

St. Louis Fed Study Shows Rising Level of Financial Desperation Among the Poor, Hidden by Aggregates

A new St. Louis Fed analysis shows the wealth of areas in financial distress deteriorated from 2015 to 2018, reversing a pattern of gains that had started in 2010.

Is Conservatism Running on Brand Fumes?

Why the foundations of conservatism are crumbling.

Does Iran’s Economic Fate Depend on a Lifeline From China?

How China is likely to view defying US sanctions on Iran.