Noteworthy Posts

I write different types of commentary which have different purposes and shelf life.  What I will collect here are a series of essays that are part of a larger work in progress that will lead, hopefully, to another book.  That book has recently been published.  Political Economy of Tomorrow

•  Deep Dive:  Surplus Capital Revisited

•  Deep Dive:  Financial Repression Reconsidered

•  The Broken Cash Register

•  Crisis and Instability:  Searching for Terra Firma

• Great Graphic:  The Rise of the Any Time, Any Where Worker

• Great Graphic:  Income, Wages, Productivity

• Great Graphic:  Tax Code as Tool in Class Warfare

• Make Me:  State of US Manufacturing  

• Intergalactic Thoughts with Down to Earth Implications

• Summers Expects a Long Winter

• Great Graphic: US Corporate Taxes, Inversions and Surplus Savings

• Great Graphic:  Longevity is a Class Issue

• Great Graphic:  Peak Driving 

• Great Graphic:  Custom-made Mass Production

• Great Graphic:  Underemployment

• Great Graphic:  Portion Size and All About the Bass

• Global Fragmentation:  Crying Wolf Again?

• Negative Interest Rates:  Capital's Reproduction Problem 

•  What Happened to Free Markets

•  S.H.O.E. Crisis

• Is Atlas Shrugging in Davos?

• More Thoughts on Negative Interest Rates

• Bizarro World of Negative Rates and Central Banks Pushing for Higher Wages

• Stealing Steel

• Return of Moral Economy?

• Great Graphic:  Political Economy of Gender Relations

• Great Graphic:  The Most Important Chart to Understand the Political Economy

• Great Graphic:  Surplus Capacity is not the Same as Insufficient Aggregate Demand

• Open Letter to John Galt 

• Romantacizing the Gig