Tag: inflation
Since our economic betters have overlearned the lessons of the 1970s and have responded to this brief and highly specific to a global pandemic period of inflation by going full 1979 and seeking to tan
Paul has a theory that: it was a huge boon to the plutocracy to convert essentially all non-government and quite a few government pension plans from a defined benefit to a defined contribution model.

Important piece at the Prospect pushing Biden and his advisors and Democratic leaders generally not to overreact to inflation as Jimmy Carter did. Democrats are right to worry about inflation’s thre
I am not one to dismiss the inflation of the 1970s as a very serious policy problem at the time. Obviously, anyone who lived through that is aware of it. But the lessons of the 1970s have been vastly

Nothing excites the blood like the fed and monetary policy. So here’s a great piece by Dean Baker getting after the fed for raising interest rates and causing unemployment. However, there is lit
I’m surprised the Federal Reserve hasn’t raised interest rates yet as it’s been rumored for a good year. But the time is coming, despite Janet Yellen doing some work to forestall it
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