Art Laffer warns on negative rates, saying he'd borrow as much as he could for no interest

Economy | August 22, 2019

"If I could borrow without paying any interest, or ever pay the money back, I would borrow as much as I could, too," the "Trumponomics" co-author says.[FULL STORY]

Bolivia firefighters 'helpless' against inferno

Reuters Video: World News | August 23, 2019

Bolivian firefighters trying to put out widespread tropical forest wildfires said on Friday they feel completely overwhelmed in the face of such disaster. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).[FULL STORY]

Hutchins Roundup: who doctors test for heart attacks, impact of foreign-owned firms in the US, and more

Brookings Topics - U.S. Economic Performance | August 23, 2019

By Jeffrey Cheng, David Wessel, Kadija YillaStudies in this week’s Hutchins Roundup find that doctors both over-test and under-test patients for adverse cardiac...[FULL STORY]

US institutions will keep Trump’s currency war at bay, but for how long?

Brookings Topics - Asia and the Pacific | August 19, 2019

By Adam Triggs“China has always used currency manipulation to steal our businesses and factories, hurt our jobs, depress our workers’ wages and harm our farmers’ prices” tweeted the president of the United States. “Not anymore!” Mr. Trump’s assertions on currencies range from overblown to completely baseless. But this has not...[FULL STORY]

المملكة العربية السعودية والحرب الأهلية ضمن حرب اليمن الأهلية

Brookings Topics - Middle East and North Africa | August 19, 2019

By Bruce Riedelشكّل استيلاء انفصاليّي جنوب اليمن على عدن الأسبوع الماضي هزيمةً نكراء للحملة السعودية لإعادة تنصيب الرئيس عبد ربه منصور هادي. فقد خسرت حكومة هادي العاصمة...[FULL STORY]

Smoothing fracking’s boom/bust cycle

Brookings Topics - North America | July 29, 2016

Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, discusses a plan to address the economic boom-bust cycle in states that rely heavily on “fracking” and how this...[FULL STORY]

Why does President Trump think the US can buy Greenland?

Brookings Topics - Europe | August 22, 2019

By Scott R. AndersonFollowing Denmark’s rejection of a U.S. offer to buy Greenland, Scott Anderson weighs in on the diplomatic incident prompted by the White House’s cancellation of a meeting between President Trump and...[FULL STORY]

Annoying Economics

Larry Davidson's Thoughts on Macro and Other Stuff | August 20, 2019

Some of you would agree that economics is always annoying. But so are chemistry and dentistry. I have something different in mind here when I say that economics is annoying. What I am referring to is the total neglect that policymakers show to anything...[FULL STORY]

Mish Moved Off Blogger to MishTalk.Com - For Email Alerts Please Sign Up Again on MishTalk!

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis | March 20, 2016

I announced on February 22 Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com. My needs outgrew blogger.The top reason is that...[FULL STORY]

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