Trump Administration Picks Bizarre Fight With IMF Over Report Backing Taxing the Rich
The IMF makes a careful case for more redistribution.
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On the Cost of Gun Ownership
Economists debate guns.
Read more...“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
Read more...The High Price of Cheap Cannabis
Big ag is moving into cannabis farming, which means less sustainable practices. Can “little pot” find a way to survive?
Read more...Theresa May Tries to Pass Off Handwaves as Meaningful Planning in Case of Disorderly Brexit
The Government provides yet more evidence that it is utterly unprepared for Brexit.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The Big Amazon Subsidy is Doomed
Amazon is losing more and more ground to states out to collect sales taxes.
Read more...How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
How shareholder value theory and other bad ideas created lousy incentives for corporations’ executives.
Read more...Sneaky Trump Scheme Guarantees Profits of Coal and Nuclear Power Plant Owners
Trump’s latest giveaway: a massive subsidy to coal and nuclear plant operators via unnecessary and costly electricity backup requirements.
Read more...Will Retailers Switch to a Price Tag System That Screws Customers at Every Opportunity?
Beware! Retailers are trying to implement smart phone snooping to allow for better price gouging.
Read more...Catalonia: Puigdemont Promises Secession in Days as King Censures Officials Acting Outside the Law
Gaming out possible moves by Spain if Catalonia proceeds with its secession plan.
Read more...Cryptos Fear Credit
Cryptocurrency fans have a perverse and badly misinformed loathing of the role of credit in payments and money systems.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness
Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Schäuble Leaves but Schäuble-ism Lives On
Wolfgang Schäuble’s legacy as German finance minister lives on, and not in a good way.
Read more...Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?
How Puerto Rico has gone from an economic disaster area to a humanitarian crisis in the making.
Read more...Jared Bernstein Shows the Costs of Not Understanding Sovereign Currencies
Jared Bernstein, like his fellow fauxgressives, endorses deficit hysteria instead of policies based on how our money system works.
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