Publications “We’re all trying to do one thing: live” The impact of our social security system and how it needs to change, as told by the women who use it By Beti Baraki, Lucille Harvey, Brell Wilson, Emily Mitchell 03 October 2023 Download...

Some potential dangers that need to be monitored. 

Manufacturing and construction have the most positive reports all year  – by New Deal democrat As usual, the monthly data starts out with reports on the two most important production sectors of the economy, namely manufacturing (for September) and construction (for August). For a change, the news was mainly positive. Let’s start with manufacturing. The ISM’s diffusion index, where any value below 50 indicates contraction, came in negative...

Money manipulates prices unfairly

why government deficit is better?

I broke this report into two parts as it becomes harder to complete reading when each of us has other obligations. CHQPR or the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform is a national policy center facilitating improvements in healthcare payment and delivery systems. As explained earlier in Part 1, rural hospitals are facing issues remaining open due to the lack of revenue for the services provided and a lack of use of various services. The...

Peter Radofrd plumbs what is really going on in economics?The Radford Free PressAn Order of MenPeter Radford See alsoOpen DemocracyConspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ResetIvan WeckeNaked CapitalismNo Energy Transition Unless Tech Can Make It Cost Competitive: BlackRockJulianne Geiger, Oilprice.comRussia in Global AffairsGlobal Encirclement and Prospects of Socialism in the 21st CenturyAnnamaria Artner, Institute of World Economics, Budapest, HungaryCentre for...

$42,000 per flight hour that’s 7 switchblade drones per hour. It raises the question of whether the F35 would be cost effective if we got the planes for free (not $80,000,000 each ). Currently F35s manage on average 11.2 flight hours per critical failure (I got that one partly from memory and partly from googling [f35 11.2 hours]. For one thing, that raises the question of how many will be available when they are needed. For another how many...

from Peter Soderbaum Economists, like other people, are political economic persons guided by their ideological orientation. We are eager to become accepted in some social groups. Just as political parties often are afraid of departing too much from one another, an economist may prefer a comfortable life by positioning herself close to other economists with respect to conceptual framework and ideology. Accepting the norms and standards of neoclassical economics is rewarding and constitutes...

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