What matters for real people is the effect on families. That’s my generalized assessment of stagflation risk, as communicated briefly in “Stagflation: ‘Why Do I
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Cost-Benefit Analysis In A Failing Economic System
“This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners,” read the standard disclaimer, at the bottom
Suffering Fools: The Blank Check Rant Continued
It’s been more than six years since I engaged in ceremonial bridge burning and otherwise sought to alienate friends, colleagues and acquaintances as a matter
Little League
One image showed five young women in bright, pastel summer attire, one wearing a pink mask, walking together through a bustling city street, looking quizzically
Risk Management In A Nonsense World
One of the myriad confounding factors in what’s been variously billed as the “Great Inflation Debate” is the difficulty in assessing the veracity of claims
Why Nobody Will Tell You The Truth
Often, by the end of a given week, I’m exhausted with pretensions to concern about the consequences of policymaking for “Main Street.” Analysts, pundits, economists
The Big Benefits Question
To say there’s considerable debate about the extent to which enhanced unemployment benefits are holding back the US labor market would be a good candidate
The Blank Check Rant
It’s nice to see some initiative, but I’ll admit to being a bit annoyed when I read headlines about US lawmakers being “threatened” with work
Who Are America’s Real ‘Lazy Freeloaders?’
I’ve variously argued that to the extent imbalances in the labor market are the result of generous federal unemployment benefits, it wouldn’t be the worst
Give Up. You Can’t Prevent Market Manias
If you read any decent history of speculative manias (“bubbles,” as it were), you’ll discover that belabored efforts to develop frameworks or metrics for assessing
Tears For Capital
Expectations matter, we’re told. And they’re rising when it comes to prices. According to the April vintage of the New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer
Quick! Somebody Save This Place
“By the way, these presidents didn’t lead the changes as much as they were chosen by people who changed their approaches as they reacted to
You Are Not Capital. You Just Think You Are
It’s becoming apparent that between the general public’s apathy, aversion to what I’ll call “scare” words (e.g., “socialism” and “Progressive”) and a GOP that’s suddenly
What Does It Mean To Starve?
Back in February, I removed a reader comment from an article called “The Children Are Starving.” The article’s title was (deliberately) hyperbolic. I was making
If Enough People Read This, Hyperinflation Is Coming Next Week
Pernicious fictions You can feel the ground shifting. The pandemic forced the issue. Around this time last year, the veil was lifted on the charade
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