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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Collapsing Investment and the Great Recession
Investment in real inputs--structures and machinery used to boost future output and productivity--is one of the ways that an economy
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Today I will do things in twos: (1) Two new articles: * Banking on the Public, by Abby Scher, a report-back
Ron Baiman on Krugman, Galbraith, and Varoufakis
.The latest from Ron Baiman of the Chicago Political Economy Group. The piece from James Galbraith and Yanis Varoufakis he
Bill Black: Heritage, Ecuador, and Correa
.The latest from Bill Black. His latest and final installment on econ Nobel laureate Roger Meyerson, The Game Theoretical CEO:
Bill Black: Myerson's Ode to Crony Capitalism
This is the fifth installment in my series of article about the predictive and policy failures of Roger Myerson, Nobel
Polly Cleveland: It Takes Government to Create Markets
When the US Army blasted into Baghdad in 2003, expelling Saddam’s Baathist regime, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expected “free
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(1) Coming soon--Interview with Bob Pollin: Today's image is a lovely drawing of Polish macroeconomist Michal Kalecki, by
Bill Black: Taxing Poor Workers to Subsidize Rich Bankers
.The latest from Bill Black, professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, former banking
NSA, Greenwald, Snowden
. (1) Watch the interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, by journalist (not mere "blogger," NYT!) and filmmaker Laura
Links and Upcoming Articles
(1) Wall Street Real Estate Buying Spree: You heard it from us first in our March/April cover story by
Ron Baiman: China's State Capitalism Trumps Neo-Liberal Capitalism
China's Expanding Empire: State Capitalism Trumps Neo-Liberal Capitalism If you didn't catch this opinion piece by