economics Unemployment passes 30m with last week's 3.8m new filers Rob Beschizza

coronavirus Raising money for a UBI fund that helps families affected COVID-19 Thom Dunn

economics The retail TP shortage may be real and due to the shift in where we poop Jason Weisberger

coronavirus There will be no new comic books in any stores "until further notice," thanks to coronavirus. Thom Dunn

politics Stocks plunge after Trump travel ban; NYSE suspends trading Rob Beschizza

Business Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations Cory Doctorow

Business Canada legalized pot. Beer consumption there dropped. Xeni Jardin

scholarship Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow

china MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? Cory Doctorow

economics Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who's swaying both left and right politicians with talk of "the entrepreneurial state" Cory Doctorow

economics A layperson-friendly introduction to MMT, a heterodox school of economics that could finance a Green New Deal Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Learning to See the Commons David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

economics Washington establishment freaks out as Modern Monetary Theory gains currency Cory Doctorow

economics The median household income of each state in the USA David Pescovitz

Business Piketty on the "Brahmin left" and the "merchant right" Cory Doctorow

economics "Productivity" is a perfect example of the pseudscience underpinning economics Cory Doctorow

Business New York City raised minimum wage to $15, and its restaurants outperformed the nation Cory Doctorow

economics We could fund the transition to green energy with 10-30% of the world's fossil fuel subsidy Cory Doctorow

Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow