What Is Really Causing Our Inflation: “Inflation in a Time of Corona and War”
Finally! Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation.
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What Blew Our Financial Bubble So Big?
Why it’s more fun and profitable to be in the bubble economy than the real one.
Read more...Mothers, Lock Up Your Sons So They Don’t Practice “Yield Farming” in Crypto
“You’re just like, well, I’m in the Ponzi business and it’s pretty good.”
Read more...Refurbished Walkers and Wheelchairs Fill Gaps Created by Supply Chain Problems
Yet more signs of commodity shortfalls: scarce walkers and other assistative devices, due to a shortage of aluminum
Read more...Climate Science and Financial Risk: Forging a Path to More Climate-Resilient Businesses
Is the search for better valuations of climate risks to help businesses reducing global emissions an exercise in self-delusion?
Read more...Senators Introduce Right to Repair Legislation
Senators introduce right to repair bill. Antitrust litigation will proceed regardless of whether federal or state legislation is enacted anytime soon.
Read more...Global Financial Risk Factors and Sovereign Risk
An increase in global financial risk causes a large and persistent widening of sovereign spreads, with the spillover effects especially pronounced for speculative-grade sovereign debt
Read more...Revealed: New Insight into What Really Drives the Stock Market
In How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines how stories influence stock market outcomes
Read more...How a Cooperative Run by the Formerly Incarcerated Is Reshaping Chicago’s Food Industry
In Chicago, the formerly incarcerated are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
Read more...Construction Costs Spike 17.5%, Worst Since at Least 1965. Inventories of New Houses Pile Up, Highest Since 2008. Median Price Dives as Mix Shifts
A rise of unfinished houses thanks to construction delays. Massive supply building up in the pipeline.
Read more...How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
How highly unequal asset ownership diminishes social mobility and institutionalizes modern-era feudalism.
Read more...Russell 2000 Drops Below Year Ago Level. Collapse of IPOs, SPACs, Housing “Tech” Stocks, ARKK, etc. Progresses
The most-hyped stocks are collapsing, some by 90%, such as EV SPACs, as the sordid underbelly of the stock market comes unglued.
Read more...Oil & Gas Investors Are Underestimating This Systemic Risk: Plugging Costs
An issue to keep in mind as fossil fuel demand declines: plugging costs can no longer be kicked down the road.
Read more...Share Buybacks Surge to Record Ahead of Potential 1% Tax: Companies Buy as Insiders Dump like there’s No Tomorrow
Buy High, Don’t Buy Low. Prices are sky-high and but company buybacks are red hot.
Read more...General Electric Breaks Up, Symbolizing Decline of American Manufacturing and the High Price of Financialization
How stock price fixated management and a big expansion into financial services under Jack Welch did in the once-esteemed General Electric.
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