A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change
Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?
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Why Interest Rate Rises Are Fueling Inflation
Is central bank inflatin medicine even worse than it seems?
Read more...Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...The Economic Effects of Military Support for Ukraine: Evidence from Fiscal Multipliers in Donor Countries
An argument that spending on Ukraine is not quite as unproductive as it seems.
Read more...Profit Inflation Is Real
More evidence that companies hiking prices because they can is a significant driver of our current inflation.
Read more...Energy Destinies – Part 1: Power Needs and Sources – Balancing Barrels
Satyajit Das provides a series on the energy transition, starting with the historical role of energy and supply and demand patterns.
Read more...“Properly Measured Inflation Is No Longer a Significant Issue . . .”
The data say many meaures of inflation have moderated and energy prices are down. Readers?
Read more...Michael Hudson at Global University, Hong Kong, on Ukraine, Europe, China, and the Dollar’s Future
Michael Hudson gives a globe-spanning look at recent economic and geopolitical events.
Read more...How This Regional Bank Mortgage Lender Crisis is Different
Every bank crisis has its own overarching narrative and streams of sub-narratives that course through the marketplace day to day.
Read more...“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?”
In a new book, George DeMartino offers some novel and pointed criticisms of economics, focusing on societal damage.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Debt Ceiling Theater and the Trump Parallel Universe
Political scientist Thomas Ferguson discusses Democratic debt ceiling fecklessness, Biden’s wobbly coaliiton, and US instability.
Read more...‘His Peers Thought He Was a Madman.’ The Weird, Wonderful History of Ice
How ice became an industry.
Read more...No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
Read more...How Declining Population Growth Might Portend a Future of Increasing Resource Scarcity
Slowing and stallling population growth could actually increase resource demands.
Read more...Here’s Why Oil Flows Can Only Be Redirected, Not Stopped
At least over the time frame of the sanctions against Russia, oil demand had looked inelastic.
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