Category Archives: Guest Post
What Bagehot Means for 21st Century Central Bankers
Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?
Read more...Links 6/12/2021
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/11/2021
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Read more...Links 6/11/2021
New York State Senate Passes Right to Repair Bill
The New York State Senate passed a comprehensive electronics right to repair measure, but the legislative session ended without State Assembly Action, so the legislation remains stalled.
Read more...Standard Inflation Theory Leaves Out Social Conflict and Costs
What That Means For Biden’s Inflation Policy Trilemma
Read more...A Nation that Runs on Bribes: Civics Lessons from our Vaccine Rollout
If we start bribing citizens to get vaccinated, what else are we going to end up needing to bribe them to do?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/10/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I have thrown in the towel on fixing my trackpad — clearly a software issue, since the mouse works on the login screen — and so I am reinstalling MacOS (just like we used to do for Windows). It’s only going to take three hours, also like Windows. Ugh. […]
Read more...Can a Subscription Model Fix Primary Care in the US?
The big bet of One Medical and companies like it is that greater spending on primary care will fatten their bottom lines while reducing overall health costs for their clients.
Read more...Links 6/10/2021
Who Speaks for the Mainstream in France?
The military’s ‘civil war’ letters on behalf of the ‘silent majority’ marks a shift to the Right that progressives…
Read more...Book Review: “Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives”
Maxims for ownership, because markets.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/9/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this too will be a short Water Cooler, since I have a second post to write. –lambert Bird Song of the Day The Powerful Woodpecker (mostly calls, but occasionally exerting its power). * * * water_cooler.otln #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The […]
Read more...The United Mine Workers Strike at Warrior Met Coal
The issues and the cast of characters at Warrior Met Coal.
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