How statistics about wealth mislead, and why that matters.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Randy Wray: Modern Monetary Theory – How I Came to MMT and What I Include in MMT
A short history of MMT and and overview of core principles.
Announcing Tucson Meetup for Tuesday, October 9
Tucson is kicking off the first fall NC meetup!
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/1/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA 2.0, China trade, Kavanaugh mini-essay, Clinton, Medicaif expansion, manufacturing, construction, Tesla, influencers, adult bedtime, a case of “chaotic neutral”
“That’s a hell of an act. What do you call it?”
Zeitgeist Watch at a Joan Baez concert
DOJ Sues to Overturn California Net Neutrality Law
Trump’s DoJ yesterday filed a lawsuit to overturn California’s net neutrality law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown earlier during the day.
Q & A: Why Switching to Renewable Energy Sources is No Longer a Matter of Morality, But of Economics
Interview with Dr. Frank Rijsberman of the Global Green Growth Institute, discussing the implications of renewable energies now costing less than fossil fuels.
Insider Attacks, Blowback, and a Generation of American Folly in the Middle East
Is anything the U.S. doing, anyone it is empowering or arming, likely to make the Middle East or America any safer?
Avoiding Sepsis Death Traps: Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Sepsis is an enormous health problem in nursing homes and hospitals, unevenly distributed by income and geography
Wolf Richter: The Rental Markets in America, from Hot to Cold
Rents fell in New York, Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, plunged in Chicago and Honolulu. Rental markets in many less expensive cities are red-hot.
Steve Keen: How Economics Became a Cult
Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics and one of the few economists to foresee the crisis, explains what is wrong with the discipline.
Measuring Unfair Inequality
Quelle surprise! A new study deems the US to be the leader in unfair inequality.
