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Angry Bear

Angry Bear

A Fiscal Policy in a Global Context?
3 days ago
The contrarian addiction
3 days ago
Solutions for a salty future
3 days ago
The Minnesota 340B Report Is Out
3 days ago
Uncertainty is nothing new for DACA recipients
4 days ago
Plight of School Bus Drivers
4 days ago
86% of Private-Sector Employees Worked for Establishments Offering Health Insurance
4 days ago
Bill Haskell

Bill Haskell

Services Continue to Power the Economy Forward. Are they inflationary?
4 days ago
Global Health and Climate Change
5 days ago
Growth is Good, How do we keep it?
6 days ago
The Contracting Gold Mine That Hurts Veterans
7 days ago
Medicare Advantage Overcharging
7 days ago
“some of them did vote to burn it all down. But if it all burns down, we burn too.”
8 days ago
It will be up to the incoming Trump administration to decide
8 days ago
Editor

Editor

new issue of RWER
5 days ago
Making America Great Again, 2024
28 days ago
The 2024 economic laureates and more Nobel nonsense
October 28, 2024
Falling shares of labour income
October 23, 2024
CEO-to-worker compensation ratio, 1965-2023
October 15, 2024
“15 Best Economics Book Blogs and Websites in 2024”
October 10, 2024
The Chinese threat in critical minerals
September 8, 2024
Eric Kramer

Eric Kramer

The Hegseth dysfunction
5 days ago
Six thoughts about the election and democracy
November 7, 2024
What if Trump wins?
October 30, 2024
Pennsylvania canvassing report
October 22, 2024
Can the Supreme Court be trusted to call balls and strikes? Neil Gorsuch, in Over Ruled, gives us one answer.
October 17, 2024
The Case for the 28th Amendment
October 16, 2024
Beyond price controls: Ozempic for all who want it, and a strategic food reserve
September 9, 2024
Joel Eissenberg

Joel Eissenberg

Yes, they’re coming for Social Security
3 days ago
Trump vs Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac
4 days ago
Roberts court silver lining
5 days ago
Knocking Back The UV
6 days ago
Fisking the anti-vaxxers
7 days ago
The ruble is collapsing
9 days ago
Federal worker cuts are mostly not gonna happen
10 days ago
John Quiggin

John Quiggin

Monday Message Board
15 days ago
Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli
21 days ago
Armistice Day
28 days ago
The 35-hour week is overdue[1]
29 days ago
Monday Message Board
29 days ago
Monday Message Board
November 3, 2024
The end of US democracy: a flowchart
October 28, 2024
Lars Pålsson Syll

Lars Pålsson Syll

Money for beginners
21 hours ago
Germany’s ‘debt brake’ — a ridiculously bad idea
1 day ago
Pourquoi la dette publique n’est pas un problème.
2 days ago
The Christmas Oratorio
2 days ago
Debunking mathematical economics
3 days ago
The history of econometrics
3 days ago
Konsten att leva
4 days ago
Matias Vernengo

Matias Vernengo

Very brief note on the Brazilian real and the fiscal package
8 days ago
Milei’s Psycho Shock Therapy
15 days ago
Elon Musk (& Vivek Ramaswamy) on hardship, because he knows so much about it
17 days ago
The second coming of Trumponomics
29 days ago
Currency substitution in Argentina
November 4, 2024
Paul Davidson (1930-2024) and Post Keynesian Economics
October 26, 2024
The Economist and the American Economy
October 24, 2024
Merijn T. Knibbe

Merijn T. Knibbe

More ´Natural rate of unemployment´ busting, bad measurement edition.
11 days ago
The political economy of estimating productivity.
14 days ago
Peak babies has been. Young men are not expendable, anymore.
15 days ago
Monetary developments in the Euro Area, september 2024. Quiet.
19 days ago
Superinflation in Milei´s Argentina
21 days ago
Employment growth in Europe. Stark differences.
24 days ago
In Greece, gross fixed investment still is at a pre-industrial level.
25 days ago
Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson

Petrodollar Deal or No Deal
12 days ago
A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
21 days ago
Beyond Surface Economics: The Case for Structural Reform
25 days ago
The Revolt of the Working Class: What Trump’s 2024 Win Reveals About American Discontent
27 days ago
US Election: The Illusion of Choice
November 5, 2024
BRICS Summit in Kazan: Setting the Stage for a New World Order
October 30, 2024
Genocide’s Moral Wall
October 22, 2024
Mike Norman

Mike Norman

Can BRICS Create a Multipolar World? — Fadhel Kaboub (MMT economist)
7 days ago
Austerity cultist Kenneth Rogoff continues to bore us with his broken record — Bill Mitchell
7 days ago
Yes, Banknotes Are A Central Bank Liability — Brian Romanchuk
7 days ago
What Trump’s Pick for Treasury Secretary Gets Right (and Wrong) about MMT — Stephanie Kelton
7 days ago
Money for beginners — Lars P. Syll
11 days ago
Rates
12 days ago
How to Cut $2 Trillion in Federal Spending Without Breaking a Sweat Stephanie Kelton
18 days ago
New Economics Foundation

New Economics Foundation

Reducing interest rates for clean energy investments
8 days ago
We need more than a tax on the super rich to deliver climate and economic justice
18 days ago
Building hope
20 days ago
Are oil and gas workers the coalminers of our generation?
20 days ago
Trapped behind the wheel
22 days ago
The autumn budget: A step in the right direction but still falling short
November 4, 2024
What to make of the Labour government’s first budget?
November 1, 2024
NewDealdemocrat

NewDealdemocrat

Jobless claims: neutral
3 days ago
JOLTS report for October: continuing trend of deceleration has begun to pose a problem
5 days ago
ISM manufacturing remains weak, while construction spending continues to power along
7 days ago
Real personal income and spending for October were all good; no special cause for concern yet about inflation
8 days ago
It’s not just corporate profits, the long leading housing sector is also under pressure
9 days ago
The long leading indicator of corporate profit growth stalled in Q3
10 days ago
Jobless claims continue to signal moderate expansion
10 days ago
Peter Radford

Peter Radford

Election: Take Four
22 days ago
Who brought us Trump?
November 7, 2024
AJR, Nobel, and prompt engineering
November 1, 2024
Brenner’s satisfactory
October 11, 2024
Break Up Economics — continued
September 26, 2024
Rizzo goes for the guild
September 20, 2024
Price Gouging Part Two
August 26, 2024
Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky

Presentation for the Miami Book Fair – Mindless
13 days ago
A Tale of Frankenstein – Lecture at Bard College
13 days ago
In Just Proportion – Counterpunch
13 days ago
Speech in the House of Lords – Autumn Budget 2024
27 days ago
In Memory of David P. Calleo – Bologna Conference
November 7, 2024
Keen On Podcast: Episode 2229: Robert Skidelsky worries about the Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
October 28, 2024
Speech in the House of Lords – Ukraine
October 28, 2024
Robert Vienneau

Robert Vienneau

Extensive Rent With Markup Pricing: An Example
4 days ago
Marginalism As A Reaction To Marx
12 days ago
Books After Marx
16 days ago
Profits Not Explained By Merit, Increased Risk, Increased Ability To Compete, Etc.
19 days ago
Another Hayekian Triangle Not Supporting The Austrian School
23 days ago
Paul Kengor’s The Devil and Karl Marx
25 days ago
Adam Smith, David Ricardo, And The Labor Theory Of Value
November 7, 2024
Robert Waldmann

Robert Waldmann

Direction of Implication of high probability
9 days ago
Over-reaction to new data. What have you done for me lately ?
10 days ago
A Complete Set of Subjective Probabilities, Bayes’ Formula, Overconfidence and Over-reaction to new information
11 days ago
The Allais Paradox
12 days ago
Diagnostic Expectations vs Anchoring
12 days ago
Allais Paradox II : Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?
13 days ago
Some Thoughts on Psychology of Heuristics and Biases
15 days ago

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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

The Book is Not for Selling.
12 days ago
Coming Up For Air
23 days ago
Politics After the Fascism Debate
26 days ago
The Prodigal Son Returns
26 days ago
The more the contradition develops: footnotes to “Marx’s Fetters: a remedial reading” — a pop-up book
28 days ago

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
15 days ago
Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli
21 days ago
Armistice Day
28 days ago
The 35-hour week is overdue[1]
29 days ago
Monday Message Board
29 days ago

Lars P. Syll

Germany’s ‘debt brake’ — a ridiculously bad idea
1 day ago
Pourquoi la dette publique n’est pas un problème.
2 days ago
The Christmas Oratorio
2 days ago
Debunking mathematical economics
3 days ago
The history of econometrics
3 days ago

Michael Hudson

Petrodollar Deal or No Deal
12 days ago
A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
21 days ago
Beyond Surface Economics: The Case for Structural Reform
25 days ago
The Revolt of the Working Class: What Trump’s 2024 Win Reveals About American Discontent
27 days ago
US Election: The Illusion of Choice
November 5, 2024

Mike Norman Economics

Why would you stop?
5 days ago
Who controls the money supply?
6 days ago
Can BRICS Create a Multipolar World? — Fadhel Kaboub (MMT economist)
7 days ago
Austerity cultist Kenneth Rogoff continues to bore us with his broken record — Bill Mitchell
7 days ago
Yes, Banknotes Are A Central Bank Liability — Brian Romanchuk
7 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

Very brief note on the Brazilian real and the fiscal package
8 days ago
Milei’s Psycho Shock Therapy
15 days ago
Elon Musk (& Vivek Ramaswamy) on hardship, because he knows so much about it
17 days ago
The second coming of Trumponomics
29 days ago
Currency substitution in Argentina
November 4, 2024

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

Extensive Rent With Markup Pricing: An Example
4 days ago
Marginalism As A Reaction To Marx
12 days ago
Books After Marx
16 days ago
Profits Not Explained By Merit, Increased Risk, Increased Ability To Compete, Etc.
19 days ago
Another Hayekian Triangle Not Supporting The Austrian School
23 days ago

Progressive Economics Forum

Interrogating the ‘Vibecession’
7 days ago
Homelessness planning during COVID
25 days ago
Demand-side housing assistance
October 24, 2024
Homelessness 101
October 18, 2024
Economic and social factors associated with the use of homeless shelters
September 25, 2024

Real-World Economics Review

Money for beginners
21 hours ago
new issue of RWER
5 days ago
Capitalism and Democracy: The market is far more flexible than Christopher Caldwell imagines
8 days ago
More ´Natural rate of unemployment´ busting, bad measurement edition.
11 days ago
Busting the ‘natural rate of unemployment’ myth
12 days ago

Robert Vienneau: Thoughts Economics

Extensive Rent With Markup Pricing: An Example
4 days ago
Marginalism As A Reaction To Marx
12 days ago
Books After Marx
16 days ago
Profits Not Explained By Merit, Increased Risk, Increased Ability To Compete, Etc.
19 days ago
Another Hayekian Triangle Not Supporting The Austrian School
23 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

«Η έννοια της δομικής αλλαγής στα διαφορετικά ρεύματα της οικονομικής σκέψης και στην τρέχουσα οικονομική πολιτική» – Στ.Μαυρουδέας, 11-12-2024
1 day ago
COVID-19 Pandemic and Vaccine Imperialism – Review of Radical Political Economics
October 24, 2024
Ημερίδα για τον Λένιν – 12 Οκτωβρίου 2024, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
October 10, 2024
‘Once again on the alleged differences between Engels and Marx’ – S.Mavroudeas, Beihang University, School of Marxism, Beijing, 11-9-2024
September 9, 2024
‘Is Neoliberalism still the dominant political economic paradigm in the West?’ – S.Mavroudeas, 14th World Socialism Forum, Beijing
September 9, 2024

The Angry Bear

A Fiscal Policy in a Global Context?
3 days ago
Jobless claims: neutral
3 days ago
Yes, they’re coming for Social Security
3 days ago
The contrarian addiction
3 days ago
Solutions for a salty future
3 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

Reducing interest rates for clean energy investments
8 days ago
We need more than a tax on the super rich to deliver climate and economic justice
18 days ago
Building hope
20 days ago
Are oil and gas workers the coalminers of our generation?
20 days ago
Trapped behind the wheel
22 days ago

Thomas Palley: Economics for Democratic and Open Societies

The Ukraine – Russia war explained: how the US exploited internal fractures in the post-Soviet order (plus lessons for Georgia)
29 days ago
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
Neoliberalism and the Drift to Proto-Fascism: Political and Economic Causes of the Crisis of Liberal Democracy
September 7, 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
An Accommodative Fiscal Stance Is Crucial for India
January 18, 2022
Join Us for the 2022 Levy Institute Summer Seminar
January 11, 2022
Are Concerns over Growing Federal Government Debt Misplaced?
November 10, 2021

Prime, Policy Research in Macroeconomics

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
Prime 1970-01-01 00:00:00
January 31, 2024
India’s Inclusion in the JP Morgan GBI-EM (bond) Indices
December 5, 2023
India’s Inclusion in the JP Morgan GBI-EM (bond) Indices
December 5, 2023

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

La nuova governance fiscale europea
21 days ago
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
Danni collaterali del rialzo dei tassi
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
Permainan Judi Bola Online Paling Digemari di Agen Sbobet Terpercaya
August 4, 2020

Robert Skidelsky

Presentation for the Miami Book Fair – Mindless
13 days ago
A Tale of Frankenstein – Lecture at Bard College
13 days ago
In Just Proportion – Counterpunch
13 days ago
Speech in the House of Lords – Autumn Budget 2024
27 days ago
In Memory of David P. Calleo – Bologna Conference
November 7, 2024

Thomas Piketty

Unite France and Germany to save Europe
27 days ago
How to tax billionaires
October 15, 2024
Europe must invest: Draghi is right
September 17, 2024
Rebuilding the left
July 16, 2024
For a geopolitical Europe, not naïve nor militaristic
June 11, 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

Was The Economy Really That Bad…
11 days ago
Basic Income For All
18 days ago
Top Economist: Why Climate Change Economics is Dangerous
19 days ago
They are Harming the Economy!
25 days ago
"Why Climate Change is Ignored" Top Economist Warns | Brave New Europe
25 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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