China isn't dumping dollars. They're dumping banks, and setting up a new financial system. (www.youtube.com)
What is the point of cruel and deadly border policies if employers could just be penalized for hiring unauthorized labor all along?
Dan Katz and Stephen Miran on Reforming the Federal Reserve’s Governance (www.mercatus.org)
Medieval Coins with Rory Naismith - Medievalists.net (www.medievalists.net)
Is Japan in crisis as yen crashes? Or is USA exporting its economic problems? (www.youtube.com)
Jobseekers get about $345 less than pensioners each fortnight. This gap is hurting, and is set to widen without change (theconversation.com)
US Economic Growth Plunges in First Quarter 2024 (www.aier.org)
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on Elon Musk's X so far | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The March CPI, the Inflation Picture, and the Fed. (www.cepr.net)
If squatters are such a problem, why don't landlords just hire house-sitters to occupy their un-leased properties? (twitter.com)
The World Desperately Needs Copper. Corporate Greed Is Getting In The Way (www.youtube.com)
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Fuck the Cult of Productivity — Do less. Be more. Fuck everything else. (joanwestenberg.medium.com)
So many of us are caught in the same trap, chasing an ideal of productivity that seems to always be just out of reach....
Two linked articles reported hours apart
reuters.com/…/japanese-bank-trains-staff-novel-sc…...
Billionaire Wealth: The Biggest Winners and Losers in 2023 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
In early February, Mark Zuckerberg added $28 billion to his wealth in a matter of hours as Meta’s shares soared after the company announced its first dividend payout....
Yi Gang on China's Digital Yuan (www.pekingnology.com)
Fed Chair Jerome Powell on 60 Minutes: The US is on an unsustainable economic path (youtu.be)
Is the European Union’s Economy Really Worse Off Than America’s? (www.nytimes.com)
The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid? (www.nber.org)
Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents’ physical characteristics...
What Do Shareholders Want? Consumer Welfare and the Objective of the Firm (www.nber.org)
Shareholders want a firm’s objective function to place some weight on consumer welfare, motivated by both self-interested and altruistic motivations. Firms have a unique technology for improving consumer welfare: lowering inefficient price markups, which increases consumer welfare more than it lowers profits. Optimal pricing...
ECB Study: Central Bank Independence vs Democratic Legitimacy (researchinenglish.com)
La Rioja presents bill to issue AR$15 billion in parallel provincial currency - Buenos Aires Herald (buenosairesherald.com)
Economic Ornithology (birdhistory.substack.com)
Is neoliberalism really dead? Or does it live on like a zombie? 📺 1h (www.youtube.com)
Transcript: michael-hudson.com/2023/12/is-it-over-yet/
What Happens To The Real Estate Market When All The Boomers... Die? (www.youtube.com)
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