Category Archives: Guest Post

Gaius Publius: The Racial Dimension of Student Debt

Why student debt hits blacks particularly hard.

A History of the European Core and Its Periphery: How an Optimal Currency Area Forms

This column documents the formation and evolution of a core and periphery in EMU, unearthing an increasingly integrated core, an entrenched periphery, and a third set of countries marked by in-and-out movements

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/12/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Trump tariffs, PA-18, Schumer, conservatism, shipping containers, YouTube, Roscoe Conklin, the man who lied in his diary.

Links 3/12/18

U.S. Steel and Aluminium Tariffs: How Should the EU Respond?

Trump’s measure raises four issues for the EU: the effect on European industry; how to deter Trump’s broader protectionist thrust; how to use the WTO Dispute System; and, how to prepare for a post-WTO world.

Cryptocurrencies as Prosecution Futures: Judge Rules Manipulators Can Go to Jail

The Wild West of cryptocurrencies just got a little less fun.

Puerto Rico Update: Forests, Power, Depopulation, and Privatization

Puerto Rico’s situation is causing Naomi Klein to rethink “shock doctrine.”

Links 3/11/18

Meet the Democrats’ ‘Dirty Dozen’ Working to Gut Financial Reforms

Yet again, the Democrats sell out voters to moneyed backers, this time ones in the banking industry.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/9/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Trump tariffs, Biden, TX primary, employment, Dodd-Frank, bitcoin, robot cars, Medicaid work requirement, HyperCard, giant floating bog

Links 3/9/18

What’s Happening to Italy?

Myths and realities concerning the results of the recent Italian elections: who won, who lost, and who simply got it wrong