Virtually nobody outside of legal circles and academia questioned the appropriateness or outrageousness of Comey’s comments. One academic legal blogger, Stetson University College of Law professor Ellen Podgor, noted that most FBI investigations with no indictments don’t issue public statements; that the FBI’s investigation was one-sided; that Comey cited hypotheticals without facts; that his accusations […]

I don’t understand why some high-profile liberals are saying that the Supreme Court is becoming a liberal Court, although I guess that if you think the end-all-and-be-all of Supreme Court jurisprudence is culture-wars cases, then the two end-of-term culture-wars opinions that went liberal, and the gay marriage case last term, is all the proof you […]

I can’t even think of something funny to say about this.  I mean, what could top that?

by Mike Kimel Clinton’s Judgment Via the Washington Post, this quote from the NY Times: Mrs. Clinton say she may decide to retain Ms. Lynch, the nation’s first black woman to be attorney general, who took office in April 2015. The Post article goes on: about the appearance of impropriety: Lynch remains the person responsible […]

The data in this post was updated from errors. Correct data below. As net profit rates rise in the aggregate, pressures for firms to raise prices to cover opportunity costs of capital decrease. So why is inflation in Japan so low? Have net profit rates increased there since the 1980’s? Let’s take a quick look. […]

Here is the video of Senator Warren at the New America’s open market’s program event.  There are other videos from the event at this link. Streaming Video Services

I have been twittering a chart this morning which puts inflation alongside the net profit rate. Net profit rate = Corporate profits/GDP – effective Fed rate This measure is based on Keynes Marginal Efficiency of Capital. MEC. As net profit rates went down in the 1970’s, firms felt pressure to raise prices to protect their […]

 by Joseph Joyce The Impact of Financial Globalization on the Brexit Vote The reasons for the majority vote in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union will be studied and analyzed for years to come. Globalization in the form of migration—or fear of migration—played a considerable role. Support for leaving the EU was […]

Via Alternet: “Reigniting Competition in the American Economy”: Keynote Remarks at New America’s Open Markets Program Event By Elizabeth Warren June 29, 2016 Thank you, thank you. As Barry mentioned, before I was a senator, I was a law professor. What he didn’t say is that I taught contracts, secured transactions, and bankruptcy—all courses related […]