a random assortment of articles that caught my eye, updated periodically…
(most recent on top)
Carolta Perez and the Economics of Hope
Fed’s Favorite Inflation Gauge Hits Highest Levels Since 1982
Is Omicron a New Wave or a Parallel Pandemic?
The Climate Crisis is Worse Than You Can Imagine
The World Economy is Suddenly Running Low on Everything
There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble
How pro-Trump Insurrectionists Broke Into the US Capitol
How One of America’s Ugliest Days Unraveled Inside and Outside the Capitol
Mystical Hold of Transitory Tempts Huge Fed Policy Error
Mr. Market Agrees That Inflation Isn’t a Blip
Margin Debt Reaches Record Levels
BOJ Becomes Biggest Japan Stock Owner
America is Giving Up on the Pandemic
Hundreds of Scientists Say Coronavirus is Airborne
How Fauci, Other Health Specialists Deal with COVID-19 in Everyday Lives
Federal Reserve’s $3 Trillion Inflates Market Bubbles
COVID-19 Might Not Be the “Big One”
NY Times Coronavirus Update Webpage
WorldOMeter Coronavirus Data Webpage
CNN’s Coronavirus Update Webpage
Our World in Data Coronavirus Data and Graphs
As Trump Pushes to Reopen, Government Sees Virus Toll Nearly Doubling
What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism?
Guggenheim’s Minerd: Prepare for the Era of Recimination
Amid Coronavirus, One in Four Americans Struggle With Hunger
JPM: Inflation Risks in the Wake of the Pandemic
Carnival Cruises: Too Big to Fail?
How the Financial Crisis Changed Housing
The World May Have a Bigger Problem Than a Potential Recession
Moody’s Cuts Global Sovereign Rating Outlook to “Negative” for 2020
Morgan Stanley: We’re Already in a Recession
Social Security’s Shortfall – Big Cuts Could Follow
What’s Driving So Many Honduran Women to the US Border?
Trump on Trade Negotiations: No Need to Rush
Morgan Stanley Strategist: Recession Bells are Ringing
Consumer Prices Trail Estimates, Testing Powell’s View
Kashkari: Worker Bargaining Power Should Inform Fed’s Stance
Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple to Proceed
Trump’s Trade War: Here’s Who is Really Getting Pinched
Workarounds Galore: How Real Americans Deal With Real Inflation
Klarman Issues Dire Warning on Global Economy
El-Erian: Four Factors That Determine Fed’s Next Steps
Dudley: Stop Worrying About the Fed’s Balance Sheet
Tudor Jones Sees Peril in Corporate Debt Bubble
Dalio Says US Two Years from Downturn
Average American Household: $440 Increased Gas Expense Far Exceeds Tax Cuts
The Only Stock Buyers in the First Half Were Buybacks
SEC Blasts Insiders for Quietly Selling into Stock Buybacks
A US Recession Indicator Flashes Red
How a $139 Billion Fund is Trading the Trade War
Japanese Stocks: The Biggest Market Whale Can’t Buy Any More
The State of the US Economy in 11 Charts
Just 10 Stocks Accounted for More Than 100% of S&P’s First Half Gain
Geopolitical Tensions Ahead of OPEC Meeting
Bill Dudley Admits Why the Fed Got it Wrong
Is the US in a Depression? (Ask John Williams)
Bernanke: US Economy Faces Wile E. Coyote Moment
Bridgewater: We Are Bearish On Almost All Financial Assets
A Journey Through a Land of Extreme Poverty: Welcome to America
Active-Passive Debate: The Public Policy Angle
CBO: Budget and Economic Outlook
The World’s Priciest Stock Market
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
Quantitative Invesing: A Crisis Waiting to Happen
How to Lose $3 million in 1 Second
Deutsche Bank Trader Admits To Rigging Precious Metals Markets
John Bogle’s Warning for Index Fund Investors
Bernanke Terrifies Stock Investors Again
WSJ: Are Traders Creating a Bizarre New Feedback Loop?
Rajan: The Fundamental Problems of the Financial Crisis Are Still with Us
Fed’s Kaplan Warns Trump: “US too leveraged to use debt for growth”
Is the Fed Paying Banks Not to Lend?
Mikhail Gorbachev: It Looks as if the World is Preparing for War
Visualizing the World’s Largest Cities Throughout History
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Fourth Turning: Where We Are Today
Hellish Choices: What’s an Asset Owner to Do?
Goldman’s Bear Case in 7 Steps
George Soros: Open Society Needs Defending
Trading Secrets: Twilight of the Central Bankers
Ed Butowsky: Calculating the True Cost of Living Increase & Why It’s Much Higher Than We’re Told
The Inevitable Failure of the US Power Grid
Jim Bullard to Wall Street — just kidding about the taper! (video)
Jim Grant on the Financial Crisis and the Fed (video, Grant starts at 10:00)
Making Money While the World Burns
Waging Wars Foolishly is Worse than Starting Them Unnecessarily
The Flash Crash (Money & Speed: Video)
Kyle Bass on Japan’s Bleak Future
Nouriel Roubini on the Trouble with Emerging Markets