How reforms by Argentina’s President Macri helped kick off a currency crisis.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Some Notes on North Korea
Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
Bill Black: Democrats Should Reject Bernanke’s ‘Wily E. Coyote’ Criticism of Trump’s Deficits
Bernanke engages in a new episode of ideologically motivated economic prognostication.
The Italian Mini-BOT Debate
More discussion of how well a proposed Italian parallel currency, the mini-BOT, might work in practice.
Can Locally-Owned Stores Save RadioShack?
RadioShack stores are coming back from the dead, um, bankruptcy.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/12/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Oh, Canada? Solar, generic ballot, ME-02, CO-06, constitutional crisis, Democrat unravelling, consumer prices, the Fed, smartphones, malls, ports, boxcars, trucker unrest, Stanford Prison Experiment
Who Says Labor Laws Are “Luxuries”?
The World Bank and IMF say developing economies can’t afford to have strong labor laws. Actually, they can’t afford not to.
Brexit: An 11th Hour Referendum Headfake to (Again) Blame the EU for the Goverment’s Failings?
Gaming out a Brexit scenario.
Finally: SEC Frets about Share Buybacks, “Torrent of Corporate Trading Dominating the Market” and “Short-Term Financial Engineering”
Mirabile dictu, a Republican SEC commissioner criticizes stock buybacks….
CalPERS Makes Nasty, Inaccurate, and Self-Damaging Attack on Dean of Sacramento Columnists for Criticizing Private Equity Outsourcing Scheme
CalPERS, in a desperate-looking defense of its private equity outsourcing scheme, scores an own goal.
Chicago Readers: You Are Falling Down on Finding a Meetup Location
Dear readers, I have booked a flight and prepaid for a hotel to hold a meetup in Chicago on Friday July 6. However, if readers do not identify a suitable meetup venue, there will be no meetup and all of these expenditures of scare site funds will go down the drain. The suggestions readers have […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/11/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: G-7, China trade, Trump and the black vote in 2020, voter rolls, ranked choice voting, manufacturing, shipping, venture capital, single payer, collective bargaining, Masterpiece Cakeshop
Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (How Big Does “The Wave” Have to Be?)
What the Democrats have to do to win their 23 seats and control the House, and California results.
