No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity
Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.
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Increasing the Minimum Wage Can Actually Create Jobs—If It's Enforced
Back when I first studied economics, we “proved” in class that a minimum wage causes unemployment. You just draw supply
New Issue!
Our January/February issue is (finally) out. We had already been posting articles (it's the layout that takes
New Year links, and a joke
A New Year's joke: First person: "Happy 2015!" Second person: "Don't you mean
The ACA and America's Health-Care Mess
While it was enacted in 2010 without a single Republican vote, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.
Going Postal
Review of The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity by Ellen Brown. Third Millenium Press, 2013.
Dear Dr. Dollar: The Airfare Mystery
Boston is 3,280 air miles from London, only 27% further than the 2,580 air miles from Boston to San Diego. So why does a flight from Boston to London cost more than twice as much as a flight from Boston to San Diego, 100% more, for the same dates? Is it just supply and demand? --Kathleen M. Gillesp
Rakoff on "Willful Blindness" and other links
This and that before I leave town. (1) Judge Rakoff Excoriates Justice Dept. on Failure to Prosecute Banksters: * Jed S.
Illinois’s New Class-Based Pension Math
Having boxed themselves into a political dead-end by adopting the austerity agenda of the business community as represented by the
Detroit Bankruptcy and Pensions
I just posted a piece Katherine Sciacchitano wrote for us about pensions and Detroit's bankruptcy, The Pension-Busters'
New Issue! Plus links.
(1) New Issue! Our November/December 2013 issue is finally done (sent to the printers and to e-subscribers, anyhow). Here