…negative?! The natural inflation rate can go negative if financial repression is severe enough. China’s level of financial repression is very severe. They aggressively lower nominal rates to boost output…

…Failing Weather Infrastructure,” by Kathryn Miles, author of a book called ““Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy,” begins by detailing several recent severe failures of technological failures of the National…

…federal Bureau of the Budget issued Budget Circular A-47, severely restricting the use of secondary benefits. Hufschmidt described A-47 as a “conservative document” that was regarded as imposing “severe restraint”…

…falling birth rates, a lack of obvious growth-enhancing new technologies, or the heavy weight of severe income inequality. Nevertheless, I think many are too gloomy about the next half decade,…

…earlier Kevin Drum post which noted the dramatic increase in severe poverty (income below half the poverty line)*. The post as written just will not do. Drum looks at a…

…day each (as the graph shows). Finally your point that the money needed to eliminate severe poverty is tiny compared to total social welfare spending is my point (I stressed…

…don’t think there can be any real doubt that Trump suffers from severe, untreated mental illness—severe bipolar disease or non-hallucinatory schizophrenia, is my guess, but I’m certainly no expert in…

…be largest in Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. They concluded their report: “Should a combination of severe macroeconomic shocks affect the non financial sector, debt at risk would further…

…into a serious recession, well, who could have known that, and who will be to blame? So let me get personal on how severe the lack of knowledge about this…

…was done. The clerics called a sit-in the heart of Pakistan’s capital city, and kept the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi virtually inaccessible for 21 plus days, causing severe…