Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.
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The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out
Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]
Read more...How America’s Covid-19 Rescues Look Set to Increase Inequality
Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
Read more...The Costs Of Safely Reopening A High-End Restaurant
A restaurant case study.
Read more...Italy Once Again on the Eurozone Worry List
A new tsunami of bad debts washes ashore in Italy while banks are still struggling with the debris from the prior deluge of bad debts.
Read more...8 Reasons Why Covid-19 Damage to the Economy Will Be Deep and Lasting
Why the economy is still mighty sick and won’t get much better any time soon.
Read more...More on Frank Partnoy’s Misguided Take on Collateralized Loan Obligations
No, collateralized loan obligations are not about to wipe out banks, and Frank Partnoy should have focused on real risks, like destruction of productive capacity.
Read more...Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’
Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...Restaurants Face Major Obstacles to Reopening
A recap of why restaurants will have a tough time regaining their footing.
Read more...No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?
Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.
Read more...Some Thoughts on New York City and the Dim Prospects for American Cities
Major cities are in serious trouble and hte outlook is grim.
Read more...Julian Assange Just Called. To Talk About the Pandemic’s Effect on Capitalism & Politics!
Yanis Varoufakis briefs Assange on the devolution of capitailsm.
Read more...Coronavirus Recovery: Why Local Markets are Key to Reviving Our Locked Down Town Centres
Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
Read more...CalPERS Plans to Blow Its Brains Out: Seeks to Increase Risk by Boosting Private Equity, Private Debt, and Leveraging the Entire Fund
CalPERS latches on to new, really bad investment ideas.
Read more...Dicamba Drift: Trump EPA Defies 9th Circuit Ruling
EPA issues cancellation order to attempt to overrrule Ninth Circuit dicamba opinion; plaintiffs’ lawyers file emergency motion.
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