Earnings
Who Gets the New Money?
M2, asset inflation, and the hidden inequality of liquidity — the institutional architecture by which newly-created money enters the U.S. economy, the actors...
The Cost-of-Living Trap
The systems making survival expensive — the institutional architecture that has progressively colonized essential categories of U.S. household expenditure with rent-extraction arrangements, and...
Beyond Supply and Demand
The rules, contracts, algorithms, and power behind prices — and the institutional architecture that produces them while the dominant U.S. discourse calls them...
Pricing Power
The corporate mechanism behind crisis inflation — how concentrated U.S. sectors exercise pricing discretion across business cycles, and how crisis episodes convert that...
Inflation Narratives
Who gets blamed when prices rise — and the four-decade pattern of U.S. inflation attribution that has held across eight inflationary episodes spanning...
Money Is Not Wealth
The financial claims competing with real resources — and the institutional architecture that has built more claims than the underlying economy can ultimately...
Growth Without Security
GDP, household stress, and the illusion of prosperity — how forty years of measured growth produced an economy in which one in three...
Number Numbness
On a Friday morning each month, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Employment Situation report.
