Article | Inequality & Distribution
What’s the Fate of Social Security in a Brutally Unequal America?
White House contenders ignore root causes threatening the program, potentially worsened by cuts. Is it due to reliance on wealthy donors?
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Article | Government & Politics
Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire
This year’s New Hampshire primary testifies to the disintegration of the Republican Party
By Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Paul Jorgensen, and Matthias Lalisse
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A Paradigm Shift Towards Ecological Restoration
“We need to figure out new ways to relate to the earth.”
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Article | Macroeconomics
Monetary Policy, Illiquidity, and the Inflation Debates
The key issue is the regulation of the liquidity of all financial markets, and not just that of the banking system
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Article | Inequality & Distribution, Labor
Occupation, Gender, and Labor Market Volatility
When working within the same employment spell, female workers, particularly those of color and those working in low-wage service and care jobs, earn significantly less when facing greater volatility than their male counterparts or those working in non-service, non-care occupations.
Article | Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
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By Orsola Costantini and Servaas Storm
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Monetary Policy and Illiquidity
It is not just all about banking system liquidity
Working Paper | History, Macroeconomics
Bagehot’s Classical Money View: A Reconstruction
Read in the context of his time, Bagehot’s book Lombard Street appears as an attempt above all to reveal the dynamic of globalization when global money was sterling.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Labor
Labor Market Volatility and Worker Financial Wellbeing: An Occupational and Gender Perspective
Research on labor market experience does not explain the link between the volatility low-wage workers encounter and their earnings and it leaves open numerous pressing questions, such as what, if anything, can be done to reduce racial and ethnic differences in economic well-being.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Private Debt
Mapping Fragility – Functions of Wealth and Social Classes in US Household Finance
Examining the crucial role of poverty and inequality in shaping household indebtedness.
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
The Art of Paradigm Maintenance: How the ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ tries to deal with the inflation of 2021-2023
The re-emergence of inflation threw the ‘science of monetary policy’ off the rails. Do the new tweaks to the theory work?
Working Paper | Finance
Precedents, Instruments and Targets that the Fed Has Used to Create and Support a Postcrisis Global Safety Net
Creating the post-2008 global safety net for mega-banks
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