Category Archives: Guest Post

New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes

A fresh report lead authored by Nathan Tankus takes on orthodoxy monetary policy ideas and provides Modern Monetary Theory solutions.

Spain’s Second Largest Lender, BBVA, Escalates Its War on Cash in Mexico

Some banks will do just about anything to try to wean their customers off using physical money, including (in the case of BBVA) charging their customers for withdrawing cash too often.

‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading

Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?

Links 2/7/2022

Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies

America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder

Blinken’s Booby Traps – How The US Propaganda Paper Released In Madrid Proposes to Go to War With Russia While Claiming to Do The Opposite

The US seems to think it is too clever by half in dealing with Russia. But some parties close to the action, like Europeans, aren’t so keen.

Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls

Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?

Links 2/6/2022

The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation

At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.

Senators Have Re-Introduced the Highly Unpopular EARN IT Bill That Would Scan All Online Messages

The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/4/2022

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Building a State One Step at a Time: Evidence from France

Some theories about government-making from France….but do they hold up?

Links 2/4/2022

Bank of England Warns of Record Slump in Standard of Living, As It Hikes Interest Rates for Second Time in Two Months

The decision to implement back-to-back rate hikes, for the first time since 2004, heaps yet more pressure on household incomes and struggling businesses. It came a day after the UK Government passed generous tax cuts for banks.