Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2024

Stagflation?

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The '70s are calling. They want their strong economy back, lol.  At the Wall Street Journal , " A GDP Warning as Signs of Stagflati...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy

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My wife briefly worked there. Briefly. It wasn't her most memorable or rewarding job.  The company made a bad bet on its own-store brand...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Big Banks Predict Recession, Fed Pivot in 2023

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Hmm. Let's see if these predictions hit gold. At the Wall Street Journal , " More than two-thirds of economists at 23 major financi...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Americans Expect Worsening U.S. Economy in 2023, WSJ Poll Finds

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Well, Goldman-Sachs will layoff " thousands ," and will deny bonuses to "underperforming employees," whatever that means...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Nouriel Roubini, MegaThreats

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At Amazon, Nouriel Roubini, MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them .
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia

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At Amazon, Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century .

Liz Truss Fires Home Secretary Hours After Being Jeered in U.K. Parliament (VIDEO)

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This woman is in political trouble, man. At the New York Times , " Britain’s prime minister dismissed Suella Braverman after an email b...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Labor Day Morning Rant: Principled Free Traders™ and the Imaginary World of 'Econ 101'

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It's Buck Throckmorton, at AoSHQ, "I t is no secret that I have extreme animus toward the Principled Free Traders™ who sought to of...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Moscow’s Struggle to Sustain Its War in Ukraine

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At Foreign Affairs , " Is Russia’s Economy on the Brink? ": In April, just weeks after he launched the invasion of Ukraine, Russia...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Definition of a Recession

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From Douglas Murray, at the New York Post , " Undocumented, underhoused chestfed kids are not in a recession, say Dems ": “We sho...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

White House Braces for Grim News on Economy (VIDEO)

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Yes, the White House is "bracing" being attempting to redefine what a recession is.  At Politico , " White House braces for ...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Brings Back Mexico's Nationalization of the Economy

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This never ends well for Mexico, and especially not for U.S. taxpayers, who always get stuck with the bill when the U.S. government rushes i...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

The Market Is Melting Down and People Are Feeling It. ‘My Stomach Is Churning All Day.’

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I don't have to take disbursement from my Roth IRA or my 403(b) until I'm 69, which is still a ways off. Hence my funds, with luck, ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy

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At Amazon, Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism .

Karine Jean-Pierre Gets Off to Rough Start (VIDEO)

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Cringeworthy. DOOCY TIME: Biden's "Twitter posted the other day, 'You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthi...
Monday, May 2, 2022

International Workers' Day

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Yesterday, actually, May 1st. According to Wikipedia," the date was chosen in 1889 for political reasons by the Marxist International S...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

U.S. Economy Shrank 1.4 Percent in Weakest Quarter Since 2020

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Let's Go Brandon! At the Wall Street Journal , " U.S. GDP Falls 1.4% as Economy Shrinks for First Time Since Early in Pandemic &quo...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Glenn Loury, Brown University Professor of Economics, Was Addicted to Crack in the 1980s (VIDEO)

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This is something else, at Loury's Substack, " The Only Professor in the Halfway House, With Jordan Peterson ": A few months b...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Attacks Oil Companies, Calls for 'Windfall Tax on Higher Profits' (VIDEO)

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Secretary Reich is a smart guy --- and he's always been a man of the left --- but he used to be more free-market, more for regular labor...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Janet Yellen Says No Danger to U.S. Dollar's Reserve Currency Status

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I've been reading about the prospects of the greenback remaining the dominant money in global trade and finance. See, Benjamin J. Cohen,...