Most of the platform infrastructure used by the ‘gig economy’ is both easy to replicate and cheap to provide, such that private providers are mere rent-extractors. The upshot is that we both can and should […]
All digital currency is not created equal. Its technology can potentially be used as a force for good or a force of evil. Robert Hockett joins Steve to discuss both. Let’s start with the evil. […]
Robert Hockett joins Steve to talk about his latest book, The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Future. The episode is right at home in our archive of interviews around the topics of fintech, […]
Just last year, economists and policy-makers were still debating whether inflation was worth worrying about. Some argued that it would be a transitory phenomenon with little real impact on working Americans. Others suggested that things […]
Public liquidity reserves (a.k.a. ‘central banks’) must merge operations with public commodity reserves (a.k.a. ‘strategic stockpiles’) now that the world has rediscovered production and more prices than ever need collaring Read Here
Why US oil prices are not determined by the world market price Robert Hockett is the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University Cross-posted from Forbes Photo: Flcelloguy […]
Three errors, all stemming from obsolete and discredited 1990s and early 2000s style thinking, have vitiated our national responses to inflation thus far. Counterpart errors, as it happens, account for our past 50 years’ economic, […]
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