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The role of speculation in the crude oil market in the increase in the WTI crude oil price.

Were the sharp increases in prices during 2020-2022 due to fundamental shifts in supply and demand or are they attributable to excessive market speculation?

Dr. Ming Lin, and healthcare providers like him, are fighting to take back control of medicine from private equity firms that are gobbling up practices and facilities. Should Wall Street make life-and-death decisions based on the bottom line?

Dive into the complexity of inflation and its impacts from a heterodox perspective, exploring its historical journey, social implications, and potential remedies.

Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion, responding to Servaas Storm

Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion

Every banking crisis has its own overarching narratives and coincidental streams of various sub-narratives that course through the marketplace day to day.

Smith did not advocate a single-minded pursuit of profit

How do governments accumulate such high levels of debt without constant major crises? Who is paying the price?

Michalis Nikiforos, Simon Grothe, and Servaas Storm criticize Marc Lavoie’s recent take on the current inflation debate. Marc Lavoie responds.

Besides changes in institutions and social norms, other phenomena could explain a rise in the profit share.

To what extent is profit-led inflation compatible with what we know about the price-setting behavior of firms and income distribution?

The wage effect of hostile working conditions, mainly in terms of sexual harassment risk in the workplace, should be considered and monitored as a first critical step in making women less vulnerable at work and increasing their bargaining power.

Changes to deeply entrenched systems of unequal gender power dynamics, roles and relations, underpinned by patriarchal values, are part of an effective response to the prevention of sexual harassment and its economic consequences.

In her new book “Naked Feminism,” Victoria Bateman explains how economic conditions drive restrictions on women’s bodily freedom and why that freedom is critical to economic prosperity.