Bostadsbubblan på väg att spricka! Svenska hushåll är idag högt skuldsatta och på senare år har hushållens skulder ökat snabbare än både BNP och de disponibla inkomsterna. Orsakerna är främst en lång period med historiskt låga räntor och stigande bostadspriser. Hushållens skulder består till övervägande delen av bolån. Det genomsnittliga kvadratmeterpriset på bostadsrätter i Sverige har under de senaste 25 åren stigit med mer än 800 procent (villapriserna...

If this thing holds Trumps going to immediately slash rates in half on day 1 in January 2025… lock it…Meanwhile all the Art degree morons are all going around saying “ the Fed is independent! … the Fed is independent!…. the Fed is independent!”  

A bit of a rewrite on this commentary to make it clear and precise in what it is saying. What is occurring is the Insurance Companies and their CEOs are profiting off of our illness. Insurance Policy pricing keeps going up along with the healthcare insurance deductibles. Unless one can afford the insurance premiums, people rely on higher deductibles. The other issue is such profit taking by executives can leave a company at risk when the economy...

One of these things is not like the others. Fentanyl is killing about 70,000 Americans a year. The others are known to be useful in treating opioid dependency yet (in 2014 sorry will Google more) only half of private opioid use disorder treatment programs offered pharmaceuticals and less tha one third of patients actually received the drugs “The proportion of opioid treatment admissions with treatment plans that included receiving medications fell...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Geopolitical Economy Hour, September 23, 2023.  BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate changing world order RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we Continue Reading The post Reciprocal Ignorance: East-West first appeared on...

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SUFE (the Shanghai University of Economics and Finance) organised at Dishoui Lake an one-day conference on issues concerning the Chinese modernisation. I participate in this conference as an invited speaker and presented a paper analysing ‘The Adventures of Economic Policy within Mainstream Economics‘.

Weekly Indicators for September 18 – 22 at Seeking Alpha  – by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. With interest rates at or near multi-decade highs, and the existing home market completely seized up, the background financial condition have trended even worse. Meanwhile the shorter term indicators may be getting reading to peak. But their previous sharp increase has worked its way into most of the coincident...

US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills, Backwoods and Out Houses USA, The Guardian This is not horrific. It is what happens to people when there is no way out. The horrific part is the state which forces people to take any means possible. ~~~~~~~~ Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison....