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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
The Lasting Impact of the Covid Crisis on Economic Potential
A look at how Covid has damaged the economy and estimating the effect.
Mexico’s AMLO Just Made Washington and Ottawa an Offer They’ll Probably Refuse
AMLO’s proposal: to build an alliance of states within Latin American and the Caribbean, and then pursue economic integration with the United States and Canada.
Algorithmic Management
Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.
Record Level of American Men Foregoing College
Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Rationing, Anyone?
Why rationing might be part of the future.
Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts
An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.
Can China’s Outsized Real Estate Sector Amplify a Delta-Induced Slowdown?
Whether by accident or design, the implosion of China’s Evergrande will take some air out of its inflated real estate sector. What then?
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2021
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Wolf Richter: What a Collapse of China’s Evergrande Would Mean
Chinese authorities implement massive crackdown on liquidity-driven inflows into the housing sector.
Matt Stoller: #OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Trying to clear up the rear-view-mirror takes on OccupyWallStreet, ten years later.
Can the Economy Afford NOT To Fight Climate Change?
Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
