…high. The much less noisy capital goods new orders number (red, right scale) increased 0.6% to a new all time high. The three month average for that metric made a…

…if the short-term “profit” was a good long-term strategy: Some large U.S. banks would have stronger capital bases to better deal with today’s market stresses had regulators not relaxed bailout…

…say “a recovery” began then, but a “Business Cycle” that ends with nearly 7% of usable capital (a 9.6% decline in capital terms) sitting vestigial is a poor “Cycle” indeed….

Last week there was an 1.5 hr discussion with the following participants: Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), Paul Krugman (Princeton University), and Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin–Madison) participated in a panel…

…income away from workers to the owners of capital. Twenty years ago, when I was writing about globalization and inequality, capital bias didn’t look like a big issue; the major…

…through a gradual reduction in progressive rate structure, elimination of the estate tax, elimination of capital gains taxes (and treatment of wealthy people’s wages as though they were capital gains,…

…many countries, trade liberalization was accompanied by deregulation of the domestic financial system and capital-account liberalization, giving rise to a rapid expansion of international capital flows. International finance gained a…

…identity, the capital account plus government net saving plus private net saving must equal zero. For a given level of the capital account (Japan’s capital account has been quite stable…

…government and no dedicated funding of programs, along with dedicated axing of benefits through the ‘deficit/debt’ scare tactic); deregulation of everything to do with business or capital (gutting EPA, Dodd-Frank,…

…has shed 900 billion euros in capitalisation and two thirds of its value,” said Jacques Chahine, chairman of European investment firm J.Chahine Capital. “Although the sector has raised 450 billion…