Honest Economics
Supply and demand. Price signals. Creative destruction. Externalities. Capital accumulation. Explained plainly — without the cheerleading or the moralizing.
Private equity's growing share of nursing homes, hospital systems, physician practices, and single-family rentals is the most consequential structural change i…
Tether and USDC together hold over $200 billion in claimed reserves. The 2023 USDC depeg episode, the 2022 Terra-Luna collapse, and the ongoing FTX-aftermath e…
Silicon Valley Bank's March 2023 failure was the second-largest US bank failure in history. Signature Bank and First Republic followed. The common pattern — de…
The IEA's 2021 Net Zero by 2050 scenario implied 'no new oil and gas fields beyond those already approved.' Kingsmill Bond's RMI work and Carbon Tracker analys…
Jason Bordoff's Columbia SIPA work frames the climate transition's distributional problem: the communities that built and powered the industrial economy bear t…
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered transitional reporting in October 2023 and begins charging fees in 2026. The mechanism prices imported stee…
Latest Episode
CEPR's Eileen Appelbaum, co-author of *Private Equity at Work*, walks through the empirical evidence on PE-owned nursing homes, hospitals, and physician practices. We discuss the Atul Gupta NBER mortality findings, the Steward Health Care collapse, and what the Stop Wall Street Looting Act would actually require if it passed.
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