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Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the economic outlook for Black America. For many, it made things worse.

Growing consolidation in localized hospital markets appears to restrict nurse wage growth

Increased hospital system consolidation in small Metropolitan Statistical Areas is adversely related to nurse wage growth.

Why does the apparently prescient and correct “key currency” view remain an embattled minority view?

Conspicuous Consumption in the US & Germany

Things are going to break and central banks are going to have to respond, but the mental frame that most people will be using is not well suited for understanding how the world now works

The advent of military Keynesianism is a warning against complacency about the moral superiority of the West in defending Ukrainian democracy.

A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Robert Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.

Setting the record straight and identifying less destructive pathways forward than round after round of interest rate increases.

A critical reappraisal of the case in favor of monetary tightening pressed by inflation hawks is overdue.

Will Milberg discusses the unique history of The New School for Social Research, and why its traditions are particularly relevant today.

Salaries in the U.S. aren’t keeping up with inflation, despite pandemic-related increases in some sectors. That’s a major threat to the future for all working Americans – especially the youngest.

As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.

How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators

Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.