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Monday, May 19, 2025
Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis
How to combat the mental health toll of struggling with student debt.
Double Whammy: Implicit Subsidies and the Great Financial Crisis
Follow the subsidies, and you will understand why we had the crisis and why not enough has been done to prevent a recurrence.
Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940
An in-depth look at Marriner Eccles’ ideas and policies, and how well they have withstood the test of time.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Sanders 2020, NY primaries, Manafort co-operates, industrial production, retail sales, Boston-area gas explosions, “set theory of the left,” Platonism
Victorian Central Banks and the Myth of Independence
Central banks have not always been independent, inflation targeting bodies, and to treat them as such is to obscure their complex histories and alternative institutional constellations.
Brexit: Circling the Drain?
Has anything changed on the Brexit front?
Census Bureau Reveals Grim Facts about Real Earnings of Men
A look at real earnings data belies happy talk about wage gains.
Gaius Publius: Democrats Should Release All “Committee Confidential” Kavanaugh Documents Now
Urging the Democrats to act out of character and do the right thing on the Kavanaugh nomination.
Former CalPERS Board Designee Calls for Board to Terminate CEO Marcie Frost for Resume Fabrications and Ongoing Lies
A prominent former CalPERS insider demands that the Board fire CEO Marcie Frost over her lies about her education.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Ratface Andy, hidden influencers, splitting California, consumer prices, jobless claims, Tesla shop floor, nursing homes, 1% escape plans, lotteries, empathetic technology
Revolving Doors and Regulatory Capture
Looking at the costs of and some possible responses to regulatory capture.
