…two years. That’s because the hurricane force tailwind of the supply-side deflationary unlinking of the global supply chain completely swamped everything else. So if I were to examine, e.g., corporate…

…goods (red) it rose 0.6%, the biggest increase since September 2023: This points to the end of the deflationary period in commodities as being the underlying reason why the PCE…

…The worldwide oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 played a huge role, but some of the underlying factors included LBJ’s ” guns and butter policies” of fighting the the War…

…In 2002, the IMF promised to reduce the use of structural policies in the policy conditions attached to its lending programs. Recently, however, the IMF has incorporated structural measures into…

…there are three levels of equal-protection “scrutiny” that courts must accord laws, government policies or government officials’ actions that discriminate against particular groups or individuals, or that favor one or…

…Krugman believes – and would have us believe – that loose money policies and causing inflation are the right policy measures not only for recessions, but for boom times, and…

…today. As the co-author of Presimetrics, a book on Presidents, their policies, and the effect of those policies; I’ve talked to a lot of people of all stripes about Presidents,…

…employment in ’36-’37 had nothing to do with Roosevelt’s policies and were instead the result of Hoover’s policies—something that should have been obvious all along, since the market crash and…

…other revolutionary discounters, so competitive change was coming in any case.” What that excuse for the vulture behavior of private equity overlooks is the fact that the same policies that…

…equality. The irrational adoption of Friedmania “free market” anti-factual policies has taken place due to the inordinate advantage enjoyed by the uberrich in promoting policies favorable to their own wealth…