Closer to a Yuan Revaluation? Back in August, I wrote that a rise in inflation in China might make the Chinese government more inclined to revalue the yuan against the…
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…(For some reason no one seems bothered by the US’s very large trade deficits with Canada or Germany.) 2. There’s growing discussion about the value of the Chinese yuan against…
Balance of Payments Primer, Part II
…flows, while the yuan is effectively pegged to the U.S. dollar. To maintain this peg, China has generally sold yuan and bought dollars, in the process accumulating large dollar reserves (which…
Trump’s war and global de-dollarization
…yuan, not US dollars. The condition, if formalised, would represent the most significant challenge to the petrodollar system in its fifty-two-year history, striking at the financial architecture that underpins American…
Outsourcing, Education, and Thinking about the Future
…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…
Rep Jayapal and Sen Sanders’ Have Introduced Medicare for All Bills: Part 1
…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…
The contrarian addiction
…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…
The End Of The Harris Candidacy
…do about health care. Both of them initially, or at least at some point, signed on to the “Medicare-for-all” label for a single payer government run health insurance system that…
Premature Hydroxychloroquine After Action Report
…of whether hydroxychloroquine should be prescribed off label based on the in vitro results is not the same as the question of should we be confident that it will work…
Labeling Food Products for Profits
Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…
