…exports, a high current-account surplus and weak domestic demand. These factors “have hampered rebalancing at a time when many other euro-area countries have been under severe pressure,” the report concluded,…

…history of concerns about Mormonism, from the massacres sanctioned by Brigham Young to the polygamy actively pushed by the church until it finally succombed to outside cultural and legal pressure…

…of financial assets; the turnover is lower. So there’s less production. And less surplus. And less income. And less saving/accumulation. And there’s less pressure/incentive for banks and governments to create…

…the 2001 and 2008 recessions. There is pressure on countries to continue pushing down labor share in order to increase national savings in an attempt to raise exports. Lowering labor…

…initial exposure. Specifically, access to food stamps in childhood leads to a significant reduction in the incidence of “metabolic syndrome” (obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes) and, for women, an…

…Phillips Curve was a well-anchored relationship so that you could create and maintain a high-pressure low-unemployment economy with a slightly higher inflation if only the government would exercise minimal guidance…

Senator Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to stop credit checks in job application process “A bad credit rating is far more often the result of unexpected medical costs, unemployment, economic downturns,…

…spread between yields on safe nominal assets like Treasuries and yields on riskier assets like equities? 4) Why didn’t the housing bubble of the mid-2000s produce a high-pressure economy and…

…low interest rates, the US government would not enjoy lower interest payments, as tax revenues fall as a share of GDP. Therefore, there must be pressure to keep the Fed…

…continue. On the other hand, there is pressure building in the US to raise the Fed rate as signs of economic growth appear. But inflation remains muted as rumors spread…