Don’t “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Why the Schumer/Sanders bill on stock buybacks isn’t a very good instrument for improving labor rights and work standards.
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Links 2/21/19
Wolf Richter: My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Ticks Down, Still Red-Lines. In Passing, Fed Plants Seed for Removing “Patient”
Not surprisingly, given economic weakness in Europe and China plus Trump trade war saber-rattling, the Fed seems less gung ho about the health of the economy than it was last summer.
Read more...Want to Pass Medicare For All? Make Voters Happy By Making Them Happy
Looking at the largely lame excuses for not implementing Medicare for All.
Read more...New Review of Dozens of Studies of Insect Population Decline, the Causes, and Things You Can Do
A review of the massive new study on insect population decline and its drivers.
Read more...Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Opioid abuse has strong economic roots, namely despair resulting from desperation in struggling communities.
Read more...France’s Institutional System Favours Rebellion Against Its Leader
The gilet jaunes movement proves that France’s political and budgetary centralism, the source of citizens’ feelings of abandonment and revolt, must be reformed.
Read more...Will The U.S. Actively Pursue Regime Change In Iran?
The US is still awfully eager to Do Something in Iran.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/19/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Harris and hot sauce, Sanders announces, housing market, oil, auto loans, warehouse fires, Google search, gardens, prairies, regenerative agriculture, palm oil, Colorado River, the KonMari method, vocal bursts, nihilism, fun with aircraft
Read more...Bill Black: Modern Monetary Theory Is On the March (#MMT)
A recent Wall Street Journal article that tried debunking MMT effectively supported it.
Read more...The Financial Crisis Was a Minsky Moment but We Live in Strange Times
Why has Susan Strange been reputationally short changed as an expert in financial instability?
Read more...Wellbeing Measurements, Easterlin’s Paradox and New Growth Models: A Perspective through Gross National Happiness
Examines new growth models, especially Bhutan’s, which has pursued gross national happiness, rather than GDP, since the 1970s.
Read more...Links 2/18/19
How Imperfect Knowledge Shapes Financial Markets
A discussion of various theories of how financial markets set prices.
Read more...Has America Always Embraced Capitalism?
History shows that capitalism isn’t natural or normal, strengthening the belief that we can create something better.
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