Bill Black: Debt Derangement Syndrome – Saving Our Grandkids from Wall Street
Debt scaremongering is baaack! Why Pete Peterson and his budget falsehoods are a danger to your and your grandkids’ financial health.
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Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
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Read more...The Return of the Repressed Critique of Rentiers – Veblen in the 21st Century
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Read more...The Evidence Is Clear: Population Growth and Prosperity Are NOT Linked
An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...A Framework for Thinking About Bad Loans
How to determine whether or not to write down troubled loans.
Read more...The Mainstream Media’s Phony War
How the mainstream media is still waging a Phony War for the elites — and why you need to donate to the Naked Capitalism fundraiser.
Read more...How Wells Fargo Exemplifies the Drivers of Big Corporate Fraud
The Wells Fargo fake account scandal illustrates why corporate executives conveniently ignore or even engage in fraud.
Read more...Unemployment Insurance Extension During Great Recession Did Not Destroy Jobs
Debunking the claim that extending unemployment insurance during the aftermath of the crisis was a bad idea.
Read more...Are Our Earnings Really Our ‘Just Deserts’?
Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
Read more...The Prospects for Technology-Driven Growth: Dismal or Dazzling?
Advanced economies are caught between two giant, competing truths: economic growth is slowing down, and science is flourishing.
Read more...Democracy. Capitalism. Socialism. Choose Any Three of the Above
Why capitalism, socialism, and democracy are necessary for any country’s prosperity, economic freedom, and economic well-being.
Read more...A Review of David Fleming’s Lean Logic (and Resilience)
Resilience in complex systems and slack systems.
Read more...When Bank Boards Get Too Cozy, Expect Misconduct
Why regulators and investors need better measures of the connections between bank executives and their boards.
Read more...Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 1
The birth of the Third Way —a turn away from class-struggle politics and a compromise with neoliberaism—and how it shaped the Eurozone.
Read more...The Nobel Prize in Economics: How It Took a Hard Neoliberal Turn
How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
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