…loss of confidence that a treasury is solvent so it will be able to pay its debts without default or extraordinarily high inflation. Like Krugman I will consider a loss…

…2023-24, and nearly 400 had losses greater than 5%. More than 300 rural hospitals had losses prior to the pandemic as well as in 2023.9 Large, persistent losses deplete a…

…become the focus. (If it is costly to change prices, inflation creates a deadweight loss.) And, since the model is devoid of banks, there is no private debt. As I…

…they don’t have a reasonable ROI in the first place. That is, the deadweight loss is probably 30% or less on any portions of HELOCs that were used for Home…

…bank balance sheets, impeding new lending. [emphases mine] At the end of the last post, I was ready to discuss “deadweight loss.” But a brief detour seems in order. We…

…employment peak in September 2008….from what I’ve observed, it seems the lions share of those job losses have resulted from school district cutbacks…but it’s not normally a national story; typically,…

Rebecca The BLS establishment survey (nonfarm payroll) reports that the accumulated job loss since December 2007 is 5.02% (almost 7 million jobs), blowing the total job loss of the previous…

…the pattern of job losses, with the largest job losses occurring in industries with the highest benefits. Furthermore, rising health costs are consistent with evidence that the quality of jobs…

…public option, maybe? Seriously, Dems. Go for it. There’s nothing to lose but loss itself. —- I added this as an update to yesterday’s post, but I think it deserves…

…can use to defend the merger. Appelbaum: “‘Albertson’s payment’… must be stopped before this coming Monday.”  “Albertsons and Kroger Merger a Win for Private Equity and Loss for Workers,” (cepr.net),…