…all the folks sitting in think tanks or on barstools across this great land agree that we must start making more stuff in America. President Donald Trump, of course, pursued…

…claiming Labor is the greatest cost to manufacturing. It is not. Look to Overhead, Materials, for such Or in my simple words, a slow slide into a recession. It is…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter Naked Capitalism’s Open Thread on Personal Stories of the Great Recession Yves Smith opened a great comment thread on naked capitalism that anyone interested…

…financial instruments the world has ever seen. Wells Fargo’s big profits, and what that means for the financial system But, the great banking crisis of 2008 is over. It began…

…1954 to 1978, which overlaps with the Great Inflation, the 12 quarter standard deviations of the compounded annual rate of change in NGDP are significantly *negatively* correlated with the average…

…benefits of natural immunity. I had assumed that this anti-vax angle was a later addition to the libertarian playbook, a response to vaccine mandates and passports.  The Great Barrington Declaration,…

Channeling Great Grandfather Mayer May Mayer May was born in Bavaria in 1848 and immigrated to the United States in 1869 when he was 21 years old. Bavaria had universal…

…working conditions and great disparities of the Gilded Age; the age of the amassing of the great fortunes of the Morgans, Carnegies, Rockefellers. … . Though up from somewhat Republican…

…did during the Great Resignation of 2021 and 2022. That may be fine for those who are happy in their jobs, which many people are. It is not so great…

…finger in cheek). Footnoting everything with followable citations, dotting all the Ts and crossing all the Is . . . This is a great example. The quotation in the headline…