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Angry Bear

Angry Bear

True pricing: effects on competition
23 days ago
The paradox of economic competition
23 days ago
USMAC Exempts Certain Items Coming out of Mexico and Canada
24 days ago
Social Security, a “pretty good program and we can afford it”
25 days ago
Don’t Blame Me for Federal Firings of the People I Fired
25 days ago
Social Security and Its Administration in 2025
26 days ago
Could Elon Musk Take on Healthcare and Healthcare Insurers and Lower Costs?
26 days ago
Bill Haskell

Bill Haskell

The North American Automobile Industry Waits for Trump and the Gov. to Act
22 days ago
Families Struggle Paying for Child Care While Working
22 days ago
Know Nothings
24 days ago
Defying a Federal Judge’s Orders
24 days ago
Word Usage for Which the Usage is Being Discouraged by the Gov.
25 days ago
Why Healthcare Costs So Much . . .
26 days ago
“Less than 1 percent of Social Security payments are improper”
27 days ago
Daniel Becker

Daniel Becker

Disaster Ready with this Republican Administration?
March 4, 2025
I Guess the Nursing Homes don’t care
February 28, 2025
Democratic Policy Without Ideology is just Random Activity
February 24, 2025
Democrats, Ignore your Marriage Counselors
February 22, 2025
The New Math Textbook (Oklahoma)
July 5, 2024
We have always had the crazy
January 1, 2024
“If things are good, then why do I still have nothing left over?”
September 29, 2023
Dean Baker

Dean Baker

Crypto and Donald Trump’s strategic baseball card reserve
25 days ago
The elites’ big lie on inequality
March 3, 2025
Businesses and DEI: Corporations don’t maximize shareholder value
February 24, 2025
Real corruption that could meet republican cost-saving targets
February 15, 2025
Donald Trump is badly nonfused # 67,218: The story of supply and demand
February 1, 2025
Health insurance killing: Economics does have something to say
December 17, 2024
Capitalism and Democracy: The market is far more flexible than Christopher Caldwell imagines
December 1, 2024
Eric Kramer

Eric Kramer

Is abundance the liberal answer to Trump?
23 days ago
Somebody better call DOGE . . .
February 22, 2025
Do Democrats and progressives need a marriage counselor or a divorce lawyer?
February 18, 2025
Is there a self-enforcing budget deal with Trump?
February 13, 2025
Some links on the current constitutional predicament
February 12, 2025
The Hegseth dysfunction
December 4, 2024
Six thoughts about the election and democracy
November 7, 2024
Joel Eissenberg

Joel Eissenberg

No Invading Allies Act
22 days ago
Time for Senate Dems to stand up against Trump/Musk
22 days ago
How Tesla makes money
23 days ago
Elon didn’t get the memo
23 days ago
RFK Jr. blames the victims
23 days ago
Duck and cover
24 days ago
The branding of Medicaid
24 days ago
John Quiggin

John Quiggin

Monday Message Board
25 days ago
Monday Message Board
March 2, 2025
Dispensing with the tech-bros
February 25, 2025
Dispensing with the US-centric financial system
February 21, 2025
Monday Message Board
February 16, 2025
How to dispense with Trump’s US
February 11, 2025
Monday Message Board
February 9, 2025
Ken Melvin

Ken Melvin

A Developed Taste
22 days ago
The Legacy
March 1, 2025
The Republican Party
February 23, 2025
Low-Information Voters
February 22, 2025
Public vs Private Wealth – Breaking Free
December 15, 2024
Wealth – Money – Worth
December 7, 2024
The Government And The Economy
December 5, 2024
Lars Pålsson Syll

Lars Pålsson Syll

Schuldenbremse bye bye
16 days ago
Vad historien lär oss
17 days ago
What’s wrong with economics — a primer
17 days ago
Late-winter blessing (personal)
19 days ago
Hovern’engan
20 days ago
Krigskeynesianismens återkomst
20 days ago
Finding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (student stuff)
21 days ago
Matias Vernengo

Matias Vernengo

The behavior of the nominal exchange rate between the Brazilian Real and the dollar in 2024
17 days ago
Serrano, Summa and Marins on Inflation, and Monetary Policy
February 28, 2025
What is heterodox economics?
February 20, 2025
The 8th Godley-Tobin Lecture
February 13, 2025
Milei and real wages in Argentina
January 31, 2025
Are we on the verge of a debt crisis?
January 8, 2025
Podcast on the first year of Milei’s government in Argentina
January 2, 2025
Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson

Something Nutty Emerging Here
23 days ago
Why Banking Isn’t What You Think It Is
29 days ago
The Horizon Nears on America’s Free Financial Ride
March 3, 2025
Capital as Power in the Polycrisis
February 25, 2025
Why Gold Prices Should Rise—But Don’t
February 14, 2025
American Imperialism in Plain Site
February 5, 2025
The Road to Chaos – A Global Balance of Payments War
January 28, 2025
Mike Norman

Mike Norman

An Explanation Of Why Taxes Don’t Fund Spending—And Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About The US Government Deficit — Jim Byrne
18 days ago
Reserve flows under debt ceiling
19 days ago
The Loan Lock Paradox — NeilW
23 days ago
Grok: “cash injection pumping liquidity!”
26 days ago
Mike Norman Economics 2025-03-03 04:01:56
March 3, 2025
Treasury “injects cash!”
March 2, 2025
Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) Primer — NeilW
February 24, 2025
New Economics Foundation

New Economics Foundation

Are we falling for the myth of minority rule?
February 26, 2025
Is the Labour government delivering on its promises?
February 21, 2025
Whose growth is it anyway?
February 20, 2025
How local services are showing there is another way to provide for communities
February 18, 2025
The Bank of England is costing us billions
February 17, 2025
Why should the left care about central banks?
February 13, 2025
What’s new in the fight for workers’ rights
January 31, 2025
NewDealdemocrat

NewDealdemocrat

JOLTS revisions from Yesterday’s Report
22 days ago
January JOLTS report: monthly increases, but significant downward revisions to 2024
23 days ago
The (totally contradictory) Big Picture
23 days ago
Constitutional Interregnum
24 days ago
New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators March 3 -7 2025
26 days ago
February jobs report: weak employment gains
27 days ago
Jobless claims decline back into neutral territory
27 days ago
Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky

Lord Skidelsky to ask His Majesty’s Government what is their policy with regard to the Ukraine war following the new policy of the government of the United States of America.
16 days ago
House of Lords Speech – Ukraine: “A wake up call” (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)
27 days ago
Speech in the House of Lords – Conduct Committee
27 days ago
The American Conservative – Why Is the UK So Invested in the Russia–Ukraine War?
February 25, 2025
The American Conservative: Skidelsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Future of European Security
February 25, 2025
Britain’s insistence on total Ukrainian victory was misguided – it’s time for a realistic compromise
February 25, 2025
Ukrayna: Savaş mı barış mı? – Article in Karar – 13/01/2025
January 16, 2025
Robert Vienneau

Robert Vienneau

The Emergence of Triple Switching and the Rarity of Reswitching Explained
15 days ago
Two Sad Stories About Great Mathematicians
17 days ago
Recap For A Triple -Switching Example
21 days ago
Some Works Of Mainstream Economics?
24 days ago
A Sixth Double-Fluke Switch Point For A Triple-Switching Example
29 days ago
The History Of No-Longer-Existing Socialism Validates Marx
March 3, 2025
A Fourth And Fifth Double-Fluke Switch Point For A Triple-Switching Example
February 26, 2025
Sandwichman

Sandwichman

On Antonio Negri’s refusal of work and Karl Marx’s disposable time: a Q&A with Michael Hardt
28 days ago
The Theory of Crisis: Sandwichman’s and Uno Kōzō’s (both Marx’s)
February 25, 2025
The Theory of Crisis: Kōzō Uno’s and Sandwichman’s
February 23, 2025
Hot off the press… and cut… and fold… and glue. It’s Amazing!
February 6, 2025
On the politics that would make a post-growth transition possible
January 30, 2025
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
January 8, 2025
Klaus Fuchs, Max Beer, and Our Anonymous Pamphleteer
December 23, 2024
Stavros Mavroudeas

Stavros Mavroudeas

CfP of Marxist Macroeconomic Modelling workgroup – 18th WAPE Forum, Istanbul August 6-8, 2025
20 days ago
Is Neoliberalism still the dominant economic paradigm in the West today? – S.Mavroudeas
March 1, 2025
‘Economic Crisis and the crisis of Economics: Political Economy as a realistic and credible alternative’ – S.Mavroudeas (video and supporting material)
February 8, 2025
Financialisation versus Marxism – S.Mavroudeas (video and supporting material)
February 8, 2025
«Ο Λένιν ως πολιτικός οικονομολόγος» – Στ.Μαυρουδέας ΠΡΙΝ 18-19/1/2025
January 24, 2025
«Ξανά για το θέατρο σκιών του ελληνικού καπιταλισμού», Στ.Μαυρουδέας Documento 12-1-2025
January 14, 2025
Απομυθοποιώντας τα κυβερνητικά οικονομικά «θαύματα» – ΠΡΙΝ 5-1-2025
January 7, 2025
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Cullen Roche: Pragmatic Capitalism

Understanding the Modern Monetary System – Updated!
June 29, 2023
We’re Moving!
February 27, 2023
Has Housing Bottomed?
February 22, 2023
The Economics of a United States Divorce
February 21, 2023
Three Things I Think I Think – No Landing
February 16, 2023

EconoSpeak

On Antonio Negri’s refusal of work and Karl Marx’s disposable time: a Q&A with Michael Hardt
28 days ago
The Theory of Crisis: Sandwichman’s and Uno Kōzō’s (both Marx’s)
February 25, 2025
The Theory of Crisis: Kōzō Uno’s and Sandwichman’s
February 23, 2025
Hot off the press… and cut… and fold… and glue. It’s Amazing!
February 6, 2025
On the politics that would make a post-growth transition possible
January 30, 2025

Francis Coppola

The myths that refuse to die
June 6, 2024
Why the Tories’ “put people to work” growth strategy has failed
June 4, 2024
Demons deserve our sympathy
May 14, 2024
Trade lunacy is back
April 30, 2024
The West must no longer tolerate Israel’s human rights breaches
April 8, 2024

John Quiggin

Monday Message Board
25 days ago
Monday Message Board
March 2, 2025
Dispensing with the tech-bros
February 25, 2025
Dispensing with the US-centric financial system
February 21, 2025
Monday Message Board
February 16, 2025

Lars P. Syll

Schuldenbremse bye bye
16 days ago
Vad historien lär oss
17 days ago
What’s wrong with economics — a primer
17 days ago
Late-winter blessing (personal)
19 days ago
Hovern’engan
20 days ago

Michael Hudson

Something Nutty Emerging Here
23 days ago
Why Banking Isn’t What You Think It Is
29 days ago
The Horizon Nears on America’s Free Financial Ride
March 3, 2025
Capital as Power in the Polycrisis
February 25, 2025
Why Gold Prices Should Rise—But Don’t
February 14, 2025

Mike Norman Economics

Elon Musk is a liar.
14 days ago
Fed is slowing the pace of balance sheet reduction.
15 days ago
Are Trump’s policies starting to work?
16 days ago
A follow up on my last video.
17 days ago
Elon’s “Magic Money Tree.” Are you kidding me?
17 days ago

Mosler Economics

Warren Mosler | Deep 6 The Financial Sector
July 26, 2024
Warren Mosler | The 8th Deadly Innocent Fraud
July 25, 2024
Updated blog posts
January 14, 2023
Housing permits and starts, GDP forecast
October 19, 2022
Housing permits and starts, GDP forecast
October 19, 2022

Naked Keynesianism

The behavior of the nominal exchange rate between the Brazilian Real and the dollar in 2024
17 days ago
Serrano, Summa and Marins on Inflation, and Monetary Policy
February 28, 2025
What is heterodox economics?
February 20, 2025
The 8th Godley-Tobin Lecture
February 13, 2025
Milei and real wages in Argentina
January 31, 2025

New Economic Perspectives

RobotBulls: Einsatz von KI und Blockchain zur Datenverarbeitung im Bereich der Kryptowährungen
May 29, 2024
New Economic Perspectives 1970-01-01 00:00:00
August 11, 2022
Standard Money Theory and the Coronavirus
April 9, 2020
Standard Money Theory and the Coronavirus
April 9, 2020
Standard Money Theory and the Coronavirus
April 9, 2020

Peter Cooper: Heteconomist

‘Unproductive’ Labor and Marxist Resistance to MMT
August 16, 2022
‘Unproductive’ Labor and Marxist Resistance to MMT
August 16, 2022
A Currency-Issuing Government Must Spend Before Non-Government Can Meet Its Net Financial Liabilities
November 5, 2021
A Currency-Issuing Government Must Spend Before Non-Government Can Meet Its Net Financial Liabilities
November 5, 2021
Comments on Recent Marxist Claims about MMT and Incidentally Kalecki
November 1, 2021

Post-Keynesian

The Emergence of Triple Switching and the Rarity of Reswitching Explained
15 days ago
Two Sad Stories About Great Mathematicians
17 days ago
Recap For A Triple -Switching Example
21 days ago
Some Works Of Mainstream Economics?
24 days ago
A Sixth Double-Fluke Switch Point For A Triple-Switching Example
29 days ago

Progressive Economics Forum

Subsidized housing for francophone seniors in minority situations
February 28, 2025
Homelessness among older persons
February 4, 2025
The economic policy legacy of the Justin Trudeau Liberal Government, 2015 to 2024
January 7, 2025
Interrogating the ‘Vibecession’
December 2, 2024
Homelessness planning during COVID
November 14, 2024

Real-World Economics Review

The pretence-of-knowledge syndrome
22 days ago
Crypto and Donald Trump’s strategic baseball card reserve
25 days ago
How economists forgot the real world
26 days ago
My Father’s Disgust
29 days ago
The elites’ big lie on inequality
March 3, 2025

Robert Vienneau: Thoughts Economics

The Emergence of Triple Switching and the Rarity of Reswitching Explained
15 days ago
Two Sad Stories About Great Mathematicians
17 days ago
Recap For A Triple -Switching Example
21 days ago
Some Works Of Mainstream Economics?
24 days ago
A Sixth Double-Fluke Switch Point For A Triple-Switching Example
29 days ago

Chris Blattman

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated
December 18, 2022
The Hard Truth About Long Wars: Why the Conflict in Ukraine Won’t End Anytime Soon
November 29, 2022
Presentation to the Joint Chiefs Operations Directorate
November 11, 2022
Spectator picks WWF as a best book of 2022
November 10, 2022
From street fights to world wars: What gang violence can teach us about conflict
November 10, 2022

Stavros Mavroudeas Blog

CfP of Marxist Macroeconomic Modelling workgroup – 18th WAPE Forum, Istanbul August 6-8, 2025
20 days ago
Is Neoliberalism still the dominant economic paradigm in the West today? – S.Mavroudeas
March 1, 2025
‘Economic Crisis and the crisis of Economics: Political Economy as a realistic and credible alternative’ – S.Mavroudeas (video and supporting material)
February 8, 2025
Financialisation versus Marxism – S.Mavroudeas (video and supporting material)
February 8, 2025
Financialisation versus Marxism
February 8, 2025

The Angry Bear

JOLTS revisions from Yesterday’s Report
22 days ago
No Invading Allies Act
22 days ago
A Developed Taste
22 days ago
The North American Automobile Industry Waits for Trump and the Gov. to Act
22 days ago
Families Struggle Paying for Child Care While Working
22 days ago

Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Yanis Varoufakis über den Bedarf der Welt an einer neuen Bewegung der Blockfreien Staaten
March 6, 2023
Yanis Varoufakis speaks on Julian Assange at the Belmarsh Tribunal Sydney, Australia.
March 6, 2023
Εκδήλωση | Από την Κρίση στον Πόλεμο: Ένας Χρόνος Μετά
March 5, 2023
Γ.Βαρουφάκης: Η τραγωδία στα Τέμπη επιβεβαιώνει πως ο διαχωρισμός δικτύου-παρόχων είναι εγκληματικός
March 3, 2023
Yanis Varoufakis | Cambridge Union
March 1, 2023

Baseline Scenario

A Few Quick Announcements
May 9, 2023
Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In Support of a Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports
October 11, 2022
Assessment: Stacey Abrams’ Budget Plan
October 5, 2022
Imposing Sanctions on Russian Energy Exports
March 4, 2022
Quick Housekeeping Note
December 5, 2020

New Economics Foundation

Are we falling for the myth of minority rule?
February 26, 2025
Is the Labour government delivering on its promises?
February 21, 2025
Whose growth is it anyway?
February 20, 2025
How local services are showing there is another way to provide for communities
February 18, 2025
The Bank of England is costing us billions
February 17, 2025

Thomas Palley: Economics for Democratic and Open Societies

Germany’s election & why it is important to understand the Ukraine War
February 2, 2025
The Ukraine – Russia war explained: how the US exploited internal fractures in the post-Soviet order (plus lessons for Georgia)
November 10, 2024
Causes of the Ukraine War & the case for Georgian non-alignment — An interview I gave in Tbilisi, Georgia
October 31, 2024
We still ask if 80 years ago they (ordinary Germans) knew?
October 29, 2024
Varieties of capitalism and societal happiness: theory and empirics
September 25, 2024

Multiplier Effect

Multiplier Effect 1970-01-01 00:00:00
October 19, 2023
Otmar Issing Is Still Living in His Monetary Fantasy World
April 22, 2022
Otmar Issing Is Still Living in His Monetary Fantasy World
April 22, 2022
An Accommodative Fiscal Stance Is Crucial for India
January 18, 2022
An Accommodative Fiscal Stance Is Crucial for India
January 18, 2022

Prime, Policy Research in Macroeconomics

UK workers’ pay over 6 years – just about keeping up with inflation (but one sector does much better…)
14 days ago
Argentina’s Economic Shock Therapy: Assessing the Impact of Milei’s Austerity Policies and the Road Ahead
21 days ago
The Poverty of Neo-liberal Economics: Lessons from Türkiye’s ‘Unorthodox’ Central Banking Experiment
February 16, 2025
Global Economic Governance: What’s “Growth” Got to Do with It?
August 16, 2024
From Chile in 1973 to Argentina and Türkiye in 2023: Economic Genocide Continues
May 24, 2024

Seldomly updated

Multiplier Effect 1970-01-01 00:00:00
October 19, 2023
A Few Quick Announcements
May 9, 2023
Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In Support of a Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports
October 11, 2022
Assessment: Stacey Abrams’ Budget Plan
October 5, 2022
Otmar Issing Is Still Living in His Monetary Fantasy World
April 22, 2022

Sergio Cesaratto: Politica and EconomiaBlog

Nuovo Working Paper di dialogo interdisciplinare fra economisti e antichisti
December 12, 2024
La nuova governance fiscale europea
November 18, 2024
Draghi mercantilista?
November 4, 2024
Il “Nobel” ad Acemoglu et c. commentato e criticato su Ottolina TV
October 22, 2024
On an unknown element of the Eurosystem monetary governance
August 7, 2024

Ann Pettifor: Debtonation

Verso Live: Ann Pettifor and The Care Collective
September 24, 2020
World Class Live Casino & Online Sports Betting
August 28, 2020
IST2020 Keynote by Ann Pettifor
August 19, 2020
IST 2020 Ann Pettifor – Graphic Recording
August 19, 2020
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August 4, 2020

Robert Skidelsky

Lord Skidelsky to ask His Majesty’s Government what is their policy with regard to the Ukraine war following the new policy of the government of the United States of America.
16 days ago
House of Lords Speech – Ukraine: “A wake up call” (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)
27 days ago
Speech in the House of Lords – Conduct Committee
27 days ago
The American Conservative – Why Is the UK So Invested in the Russia–Ukraine War?
February 25, 2025
The American Conservative: Skidelsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Future of European Security
February 25, 2025

Thomas Piketty

Regaining confidence in Europe
17 days ago
Trump, national-capitalism at bay
February 18, 2025
Democracy vs oligarchy, the fight of the century
January 21, 2025
For a new left-right cleavage
December 17, 2024
Unite France and Germany to save Europe
November 12, 2024

Philip Pilkington: Fixing Economists

Fixing the Economists 1970-01-01 00:00:00
June 17, 2022
FX Crises and the Trajectory of Interest Rates
September 22, 2021
Is China Facing a Minsky Moment?
September 21, 2021
Inflation, the Quality Factor and Distribution
September 16, 2021
Investing During Inflation
September 7, 2021

Steve Keen’s Debt Watch

"Rachel Reeves is Wrong" Top Economist Warns the UK
18 days ago
Top Economist Explains: The U.S. is Wrong about Energy…
25 days ago
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29 days ago

Jodi Beggs: Economists Do It With Models

Economists Do It With Models 1970-01-01 00:00:00
November 4, 2024
Youngling kills anakin
May 29, 2022
High Tide (Jody Beggs Band)
December 21, 2021
The Habtic Standard
February 17, 2021
The Habtic Standard
December 19, 2020

John Aziz: Azizonomics

My Future
August 27, 2020
Britain in the Boris Era
February 29, 2020
My Thoughts On Brexit
October 19, 2019
Bitcoin Is Failing As Money—But Bitcoin Cash Isn’t
December 25, 2017
Don’t Tolerate The Trumpists
August 10, 2017

Socialdem. 21st Century

“Taxes drive Money”: What does this mean in MMT?
August 13, 2024
Per Bylund’s “Is it Money because it is redeemed in Tax Payments?”: A Post Keynesian Response
July 23, 2024
Radhika Desai on the Labour Theory of Value: A Refutation
July 20, 2024
Per Bylund versus Carl Menger on Taxes driving the Value of Money
July 20, 2024
Marx’s Capital, Volume 3, Chapter 10: A Critical Summary
July 15, 2024

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