Category Archives: Guest Post
Wolf Richter: What Will Rising Mortgage Rates Do to Housing Bubble 2?
Investors have fixated on the rise in Treasury yields. Perhaps they should worry more about what the Fed’s rate increases are doing to mortgage rates.
Read more...Analysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Why the way economists think about wealth is too narrow, and how to start to remedy that.
Read more...Was Finland’s Universal Basic Income Program A Failure?
A look at the results of recent basic income experiments.
Read more...The U.S. Border as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice
Despite Trump’s braying about it, the militarization of the US border has been an ongoing project.
Read more...5 Policies That Could Improve Housing for the Renting Generation
Housing has become a more divisive issue than ever, as rising real estate costs and less job stability make buying a house both harder and more fraught. Renters need better protections, but how to get there?
Read more...Marx and Modern Microeconomics
Marx gets some long-overdue credit.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How the Democrats Could, and Probably Will, Blow 2020
How the Democrats are conspiring to snatch defeat from the jaws of a 2020 victory.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Macro and trade, Cosco Shipping, Sanders video empire, mid-terms, superdelegates, Jobs Guarantee, national activity, Toys ‘R’ Us, Sears, dreams, the scientific method, pigeon towers
Read more...Plastics Pollution Policies– “Bold” or Pathetic?
Some recent news on the plastics clean-up front– the situation remains dire. Will waste be the end of us?
Read more...Links 4/23/18
Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
Read more...Middle East Nightmare, Made in Washington
How the US is at risk of creating Armageddon in the Middle East.
Read more...Bank Watch: Wells Fargo Fined $1 Billion
The OCC and CFPB imposed $1 billion in fines on Wells Fargo Friday, continuing the kind and gentle treatment of bank transgressions pioneered by the previous administration.
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