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No sign here that the rate hikes have slowed growth: This is what has been hurting their currency: This series is showing signs of slowing, perhaps due to working from home:

from Tony Lawson and real-world economics review issue no. 101 What is money?  Two sorts of answer to this question can be found in the modern literature.  One locates money’s nature in the organising structure of human communities, the other in intrinsic properties of particular (money) items (like commodities, debts, precious metals and so on). If accounts of money that draw on social positioning theory are instances of the former, a currently very popular and seemingly increasingly...

The future of the information (non) economy For quite a while now, I’ve been making the argument that, in an information economy, the relationship between investment, production and profit, central to capitalism, no longer works. Here’s an early statement from my Giblin lecture in 2005. to the extent that innovation and productive growth arise fromactivities that are pursued primarily on the basis non-economic motives, the linkbetween incentives and outcomes is weakened. This...

The future of the information (non) economy For quite a while now, I’ve been making the argument that, in an information economy, the relationship between investment, production and profit, central to capitalism, no longer works. Here’s an early statement from my Giblin lecture in 2005. to the extent that innovation and productive growth arise fromactivities that are pursued primarily on the basis non-economic motives, the linkbetween incentives and outcomes is weakened. This...

Leveled off well above pre-Covid levels, and were held down by falling gasoline prices- no recession here: Adjusted for CPI/inflation: This was falling from the post-Covid fiscal collapse but has since recovered with the rate hikes:

Leveled off well above pre-Covid levels, and were held down by falling gasoline prices- no recession here: Adjusted for CPI/inflation: This was falling from the post-Covid fiscal collapse but has since recovered with the rate hikes:

from Imad A. Moosa and real-world economics review issue no. 101 The spread of the Coronavirus was aided by unpreparedness, the fact that the private sector cannot deal with a pandemic, neoliberal policy makers who could not care less about ordinary people, and years of dismantling public health systems through privatisation. Since the 1980s, belief in the power of the market has led to a status quo where governments take a back seat, allowing the private sector to steer the economy for...

Looking up, as have been most indicators since the rate hikes, which continue to add serious amounts of interest income paid by government (deficit spending) to the economy: Still high enough for the Fed to keep raising rates, etc: Higher than expected: New claims went up a bit, probably due to the hurricane, but remain very low historically: