Subcommittee hearing: When Health Care Becomes Wealth Care: How Corporate Greed Puts Patient Care and Health Workers at Risk
Eileen O'Grady:
Stuck in a fog of misleading narratives, most of us don’t see the true extent of COVID's persisting—and intensifying—threats. INET’s Lynn Parramore talks to Dr. Phillip Alvelda about the dangers we’re missing and the failures of public health agencies to inform and protect us. *This is Part 1 of a two-part interview.
Households’ willingness to take on risks has clear implications for the transmission of financial shocks, both in the long run and over the business cycle. This article introduces a newly published research dataset from the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) and summarises insights these data provide into household risk-taking. In particular, it examines how an increase in wealth affects a household’s decision on whether or not to invest in the stock market. The evidence suggests that all but the wealthiest households have a substantial aversion to investing in the stock market.
If we are to work toward a better future, we must look beyond the surface, and understand the multifaceted reality of China's ascent in the global arena.
The current paper returns to the key questions of wages and incomes and how wealth effects cripple
reliance on interest rates to control inflation.
How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election
approaches?
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Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor talk to Rob about their recently released book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has plainly been well-earned.
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