About a hundred tenants from across the country, all living in units with federally-backed mortgages, occupied the headquarters of Starwood Capital Group in Washington, D.C. on Friday, wearing shirts that said “THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH.” They unfurled a large banner that said, “Tenants are capable and willing to pay rent increases,” which is […]
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Tenants and Economists Are Pushing to Regulate Rent for a Vast Amount of U.S. Housing
Working longer ‘not a viable solution’ to US retirement crisis, economists say
Right-wing lawmakers’ preferred method for dealing with the United States’ looming retirement crisis—telling older workers to keep toiling until they’ve saved enough to stop—is “not a viable solution,” says a report published Wednesday. “Millions of people are entering their retirement years with insufficient savings to cover basic expenses and medical bills,” the new analysis from the Economic Policy […]
Bail-ins, Bail-outs and Other forms of Self-Mutilation: Lobotomized Economists Clash on the Deck of the Titanic
As the geniuses running the western financial bubble (sometimes called an “economy”) continue to double down on their obsession to pump a dead financial system with ever more trillions in stimulus spending, arguments are raging among brainwashed economists living in denial over the oncoming systemic collapse. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and […]
Economists warn of Israeli financial meltdown
March 02 2023 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English Experts are warning that Netanyahu’s actions will lead to long-term damage to economic growth and Israelis’ standard of living. Israeli economists issued a warning that they are at the crack of a financial meltdown and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition could have grave implications for the […]
Mainstream Economists Are Struggling To Hide The Incoming Economic Collapse
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group For many years now there has been a contingent of alternative economists working diligently within the liberty movement to combat disinformation being spread by the mainstream media regarding America’s true economic condition. Our efforts have focused primarily on the continued devaluation of […]
Economists Confirm We Got No Food, No Jobs, Pets’ Heads Are Falling Off
U.S.—Economists are warning that on its current trajectory, the U.S. will have no food, no jobs, and our pets’ heads will soon be falling off. As the supply crisis worsens and Americans are still refusing to return to work, concerns have been raised that our pets—whether dogs, cats, or parakeets—will soon find their heads are […]
3 U.S.-Based Economists Receive Nobel Prize For Labor Market Research, Framework
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three U.S-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for pioneering research on the labor market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education, and for creating the scientific framework to allow conclusions to be drawn from such studies that can’t use traditional methodology. Canadian-born David Card of the University […]
Israel’s finance minister defies economists on unemployment benefits
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Netanyahu and these economists are only telling Israelis half-truths about COVID aid plan
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New Mexican Economists Warn: Change Course Now
More than 40% of New Mexico’s income relies on oil and gas, leaving the state vulnerable to the industry’s boom and bust cycle. NOTE: As the reality of the end of the fossil fuel era hits, states and the nation need to consider how to transition to a clean energy economy. A national Green New […]
Fake Pandemics Created by Fake Doctors Financed by Fake Economists
The democratic party is run be pedophiles, banksters and communists. Does anybody see a problem here? “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent […]
Bush-Era Economists Emerge As Front-Runners For Fed Vice Chair Position
After selecting Fed governor Jerome Powell to replace Janet Yellen as Fed Chair when her term expires in February, the Trump White House has now moved on to interviewing a series of candidates for the Vice Chair position. As the Wall Street Journal notes this morning, two of the more likely candidates for that role are a […]
Top Institutions and Economists Now Say Globalization Increases Inequality
Top Institutions and Economists Now Say Globalization Increases Inequality By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com World Bank, IMF, BIS, NBER, McKinsey Now Admit that Globalization Increases Inequality We’ve all heard that globalization lifts all boats and increases our prosperity … But mainstream economists and organizations are now starting to say that globalization increases inequality. The National Bureau of Economic […]
“The Prevailing Debate Among Economists and Historians is Whether the World Economy Faces the ‘Great’ Depression of the 1930s or the ‘Long’ Depression of the 1870s”
Washington’s Blog October 6, 2011 Economists Agree: We’re In a Depression Reuters notes: You know it’s grim when the prevailing debate among economists and historians is whether the world economy faces the “Great” depression of the 1930s or the “Long” depression of the 1870s. *** Harvard professor and economic historian Niall Ferguson, a fan of the […]
Rip up tax rules and start from scratch, say top economists
Becky BarrowDaily Mail September 14, 2011 The tax system is ‘inefficient, overly complex and frequently unfair’, and it is hurting the economy, one of Britain’s top economic think-tanks warns today. In a blistering attack, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said a better tax system could create hundreds of thousands of jobs and add tens […]
Economists Refuse to Recognize the New Great Depression
Clif DrokeSeeking Alpha Thursday, August 18, 2011 Print this page. Comment Rules Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Views: 0