A few weeks ago, a financial blogger who shall go unnamed (because he acted like a dunderhead) wrote that there was not one scrap of conservative criticism of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century that...
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote the following last month: “Recently the Federal Reserve released transcripts of its monetary policy meetings during the fateful year of 2008….What’s really striking is the...
The new economics book everyone is talking about is Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. (>>RECENZJA) Piketty made his name a few years ago by coining the term the “top 1%.” Now in this volume of...
Lucky for Vladimir Putin that as he makes his push into Ukrainian territories, the price of oil is just about $100 per barrel. A price so high—five times the average of the 1990s, when the Russian Federation first came of...
Wielkie załamanie na rynku pracy jest naturalnym skutkiem polityki pieniężnej Bena Bernanke. Były prezes Fed ponosi odpowiedzialność za stagflację, a powoływanie się na niski indeks cen konsumpcyjnych to słaby...
That was a disingenuous speech on economic inequality that President Obama gave last week. “Making sure our economy works for every working American….It drives everything I do in this office,” the president...
Now that the only melodrama in the history of the selection of the Federal Reserve chair nominee has been resolved in favor of Janet Yellen, a moment must be taken as to this figure’s aptness given our current...
The great government shutdown of 2013 sure has had its moments. Veterans calling for the President to “tear down this wall” jerry-built to close the World War II memorial; Representatives in Congress pleading that they...
A question has haunted the aftermath of the Great Recession: where is all the inflation? If the Federal Reserve is going to spike the money supply most massively in the context of minimal economic growth, as it has since...
Francis is the first pope from the Americas/the Southern Hemisphere/the “global south.” That last one is a favorite of those who like the word “neoliberalism.” Francis is also from the “developing world”...