…purpose is to–uh-oh!–enable people without the financial means to purchase healthcare insurance through the insurance exchanges, by–uh-oh!–providing them tax credits and subsidies for that purpose. “[T]he IRS is not merely…

…Above I mentioned financial assets which include overnight loans and 30 year mortgages. As that suggests, I assume that there are other financial assets whose value depends in part on…

…respond, presumably, by borrowing more, and spending what they borrow. Here’s why that doesn’t make sense: Nick forgot about option #2: If households and nonfinancial businesses (the real sector) are…

…+ I + NX, version of equation (5) without G. In the first column, you have household consumption. In the second column, you have the financial sector which makes sure…

One of the really annoying (at least to me) fads among late Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, mainly, I suspect, from the Northeast and the Washington, D.C. area, is the…

I have long been interested in the possible use of naked credit default swaps to profit from deliberately driving a firm bankrupt (see here, here, and here). My idea was…

…And I believe it will likely need to begin before either the labor market or the financial markets have completely turned around. Hoenig (July 16): “While the comparison to the…

…kitchens under stress too, one wonders how people who are in such dire financial straits manage to get by. Before the crisis, if someone was hit with a financial emergency,…

…that occurred after the financial crash, but to further deregulate financial markets worldwide. … TISA is a huge “trade” agreement that covers the services sector, which includes audiovisual; finance; insurance;…

…declining debt to GDP ratios are unlikely to be achieved. As long as European governments continue to raise funds in the financial markets on favorable terms, the current situation remains…