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David Harvey observed recently that this crisis was the first in modern times in which the periphery has not borne a disproportionate share ...

If the debt-ceiling negotiations (summarized here ) drag on to the point where there is real doubt about the full repayment of Treasury secu...

by Will Boisvert Call me perverse, but ever since the Fukushima plant blew up and started spewing radiation into a depopulated countryside...

Just above this is a long post by Will Boisvert on the relative risks of nuclear power in the light of the Fukushima disaster. It's very...

I don't claim to be any expert on the negotiating table. But I was, about ten years ago, the lead negotiator for my graduate employee un...

Interesting piece in the FT on Chinese inflation, and the persistent divergence between inflation as measured by the CPI and the GDP deflat...

When we left off , we'd concluded that the relationship between g , the growth rate of GDP, and i , the after-tax interest rate on gover...

Matthew Yglesias is puzzled by the fundamental weirdness of having so much savings flowing uphill from poor, fast-growing countries into ...

If we're going to discuss fiscal policy, we should be clear on the accounting relationships involved. So, here are some basic equations ...

Remember that old joke? The Slack Wire was hit by a bunch of spam comments just now, which I promptly deleted. Whatever, it's a blog, ...