Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021
Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.
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You Don’t Want to Imagine an Ocean Without Coral Reefs—But You Might Have To
The latest reading on the slow-motions deaths of coral reefs.
Read more...2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/05/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...The ‘Gateway Drug to Corruption and Overspending’ Returns to Congress. Are Earmarks Really That Bad?
Democrats go for more better pork, aka earmarks.
Read more...Workers’ Wages: The Next Frontier in the Financialization of Just About Everything
As the virus crisis bites deeper and deeper into workers’ wages and household finances, big money is pouring into workplace finance initiatives.
Read more...Five Days Without Cops: Could Brooklyn Policing Experiment be a ‘Model for the Future’?
A promising “defund the police” pilot featured cooperation between cops and community members.
Read more...Google Rigged Its Own Advertising Auction In Favor of Facebook for a Price (and What That Means for the So-Called Free Market)
Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/04/2021
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Read more...Links 1/4/2021
Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World’s Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
Harvard’s Greg Mankiw is taken to task by Serious Economist Peter Bofinger for some major howlers in Mankiw’s textbooks.
Read more...Shutting Off Comments
Comments are off until futher notice.
Read more...Links 1/3/2021
Economist Dennis Snower Says Economics Nears a New Paradigm
A perhaps too-upbeat take on the possibilty of big changes in the economics profession.
Read more...Epidemiological and Economic Consequences of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Another look at Covid containment strategies.
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