…against civilians in Ukraine led to renewed calls for the EU to officially ban Russian energy exports . . . oil prices then rose more than 2% in early trading…

…90% of Russian oil imports, the contract price for US light sweet crude for July delivery jumped to over $120 a barrel in early trading Monday. After Saudi Aramco unexpectedly raised its selling…

A lot of trading in the Fixed Income (and especially FX) market is done for “liquidity” purposes. There is often an underlying goal involved (e.g., push prices higher with small…

…An IG of the Choice program found the VA overpaid by $140 million besides other issues with the program. Access to VA Health Services Now Better Than Private Hospitals? Nicole…

…found, such as doing away with the program’s contribution-benefit link altogether and directly subsidizing the program with income taxes from the general fund.” This is exactly true. But what Blahous…

…the Federal Direct Loans program. While there exists a level of default within the student loan program administered by the Federal Direct Loans program; remember too, Federal Direct Loans can…

…the economic characteristics of IMF program countries found that countries that entered IMF programs in the early 1980s had higher rates of domestic credit growth, larger shares of government expenditure,…

…program, even though it had one earlier, one that dated back to the Eisenhower admin when the US supported their program under the Shah. But, the bottom line is that…

…and oligarchy, etc. that people want to hear. One important distinction that Chasin notes for thinking about socio-economic programs is the distinction between means testing and universality. A means-tested program…

…program. That’s it. The law does almost nothing to fix the serious defects of the program in the original CARES act. This is remarkable because the initial law was so…