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Changing earnings requirements for Unemployment Insurance could improve access and better support U.S. workers

Temporary changes to the Unemployment Insurance program played an enormous role in the U.S. policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting sharp-but-short recession...

Austerity cultist Kenneth Rogoff continues to bore us with his broken record – William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory

One would reasonably think that if someone had been exposed in the past for pumping out a discredited academic paper after being at the...

And the 2024 Economics Nobel Goes to…

The 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (or simply THE Nobel Prize, as I call it) was...

The U.S. labor market keeps beating projections

No single economic indicator fully describes the state of the U.S. labor market. Yet a range of commonly used measures, from the unemployment rate...

The federal government would sack the RBA Board and Governor except it is too busy jumping at its own shadow

It’s Wednesday and as usual I cover a few topics briefly rather than provide a deeper analysis of a single issue. Today, I consider...

Antitrust at the Agencies: PBM Madness at the FTC, Part 2

As I noted in my last post, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Sept. 20 that it had...

Addressing pervasive tax evasion by cryptocurrency users

The price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reached record highs last week, buoyed by the U.S. election of Donald Trump, who is seen as...

Must-read

Biden Admin Scrambling To Auction Off Border-Wall Sections Before Trump Takes Office

With Donald Trump set to retake office in January, the Biden administration is scrambling to auction off unused sections of Trump's border wall, the...

Do You Have a Passion for Political Solutions?

This week, as expected, the Federal Reserve did not hike nor cut the federal funds rate.  Instead, following the two-day FOMC meeting, the central...

MiB: Tony Kim, Blackrock Active Technology

     This week, we speak with Tony Kim, Managing Director and Head of the Fundamental Equities’ Global Technology Team at BlackRock. he is manager of...