Finance

Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction

Monetary policy should be guided much more by financial sector developments and much less by near-term targets for inflation.

Reaching climate goals means rich countries must invest in sustainable technologies in developing countries with huge energy needs.

The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis

Dr. Ming Lin, and healthcare providers like him, are fighting to take back control of medicine from private equity firms that are gobbling up practices and facilities. Should Wall Street make life-and-death decisions based on the bottom line?

Dennis Kelleher, co-founder of Washington DC-based financial watchdog Better Markets, explains how Main Street gets hurt by the ongoing banking turmoil and why crypto is the last place anybody should be running to for safety.

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

Discussions on the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt sustainability with a view to proposing possible policy reforms.

Morale hazard can turn into a darker ‘moral’ hazard

There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital

There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.

A federal government guarantee or 100% reserve banking? Which is better?

Bank failures don’t threaten most deposits, but they do threaten jobs

The explanation of systematic breakdowns in supervisory oversight over time must include the shift in Federal Reserve culture during and after the 1990s

Austerity for ordinary citizens and bank rescues for the affluent is a toxic mix