From Juanita Broaddrick to Tara Reade: In Forty Years Has Nothing Changed at All?
Remember Juanita Broaddrick? The fact that you probably don’t speaks volumes about our political culture.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19, Biden (virtual rally debacle, youth vote, Veepstakes), Trump’s failure, the end of canvassing?, DSA, horrid employment numbers (with class dimension), containers, rail, sharing economy, Sephora, Rent the Runway, Zoom, llamas and antibodies, West Wing
Read more...Don’t Do It Again! The Swedish Experience With Negative Central Bank Rates in 2015-2019
Why negative interest rates were a bust.
Read more...Modigliani Meets Minsky: Rising Inequality and U.S. Household Debt Since 1950
Yves here. This short piece looks at some of the intuitions about the relationship between rising household debt levels and increasing inequality. And they sure do look to be connected! By Alina Bartscher, University of Bonn, Moritz Kuhn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bonn and Moritz Schularick, Professor of Economics, University of Bonn. Originally […]
Read more...The Puzzling Questions of the Coronavirus: A Doctor Addresses 6 Questions That Are Stumping Physicians
A partial list of coronavirus “known unknowns”.
Read more...Links 5/7/2020
Hunger Rises Dramatically in America
Hunger levels are shooting up and Republicans want to do as little as possible about it.
Read more...Economic Blow Of The Coronavirus Hits America’s Already Stressed Farmers
Many farmers were struggling economically and psychologically even before coronavirus hit.
Read more...The Federal Reserve’s Coronavirus Crisis Actions, Explained (Part 6)
What the Federal Reserve has been up to lately, such as bailing out the shale gas industry.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/6/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID 19 chart, Chait on Biden, billionaire donors, Sanders post mortem, Warren, Michelle Obama, horrid Social Security proposal, employment, employment, meat-packing, trucking, airfreight, apparel and Vietnam, #COVID vaccines, employment, where is FDR?, asthma
Read more...Betsy Sweet: “In Maine, We Live the Climate Crisis Everyday”
Betsy Sweet, a Democratic primary candidate for the US Senate, explains why a progressive policy agenda is popular in Maine.
Read more...People and Jobs? Or Wealth? The Government Has To Decide Which To Prioritise, and There Is Only One Right Answer
Why landlords, banks, and pensions need to be sacrificed to save jobs and businesses from the ravages of coronavirus.
Read more...The Eurozone in Crisis
The Eurozone, despite years of band-aids over gunshot wounds, has managed to soldier on. It may have finally met its match in the coronacrisis
Read more...Some Communities Are Being Forced to Fight School Closures and Privatization in the Midst of the Pandemic
Citizens opposing a school restructuring plan in Minneapolis remind local officials: “The educational system actually belongs to us.”
Read more...In Quest of the May Day Strikes
A round-up of May Day strike coverage.
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