Analysis

Remembering Perry Mehrling

10/13/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

It is with deepest sadness and regret that we learned of the passing of Dr. Perry Mehrling. Dr. Mehrling played a vital role in INET and its Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) for many years. We were looking forward with hopeful anticipation to working with him far into the future. Alas, it was not to be. Over the next few months, INET and YSI will be organizing a series of tributes to Dr. Mehrling. In the meantime, we gratefully reprint with permission the warm and generous appreciation of our long time colleague just published by our friends at the History of Economics Society.

Big Money, Party Politics, and Congressional Leadership in the 2026 Election: From the Rockies to the Himalayas

10/11/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

In the 2026 midterms, congressional leaders of both parties are drawing huge shares of money from million-dollar donors, while small donors barely register. New data trace the rise of mega-donor and dark-money financing and what it means for party politics.

NVIDIA’s $150-Billion Protection Payoff: How much looting of the corporate treasury will Jensen Huang do to protect his job?

10/06/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

NVIDIA’s $150 billion buyback plan raises the question of who benefits when corporate cash is spent propping up share prices. Behind the AI boom lies a system that rewards executives and investors while starving productive investment and weakening resilience.
The SEC’s license to loot

The Fast Lane That Nobody Has to Take: Will Medicare learn more about the devices it pays for through the new RAPID pathway?

10/05/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

A new Medicare pathway promises faster, more predictable coverage for breakthrough medical devices. When participation is voluntary, however, and manufacturers can take other routes, the real test is not who enters the fast lane, but what Medicare learns about those who don’t.

Libertarians and the Emergence of the “Virginia Plan” of Private Segregation Academies

09/30/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

What does modern school privatization owe to Virginia’s fight against desegregation? A little-known history traces how segregationists and emerging libertarian ideas converged around publicly funded private schools, creating a political and intellectual blueprint with consequences far beyond the 1950s.

Everyone’s Asking the Wrong Questions About AI and Education

09/30/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

We keep talking about the impact of AI in the classroom, but even more pressing is whether children have the security to learn to begin with. The future workforce needs human beings who are healthy, stable, and capable of imagining a life beyond survival. *From the “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work.

Inflation Beyond Borders: A Research Agenda

09/20/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

Inflation is usually treated as a national problem, to be managed through domestic monetary and fiscal policy. But its striking synchronization across countries suggests another story, one where it is shaped by global production, capital mobility, currency hierarchies, and the international distribution of economic power.

No Country Makes Its Own Inflation

09/20/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

Sixty years of data show inflation moving in step across the world. Economic theory still treats it as a national affair.

The Asian Battery Companies Charging the EV Transition

09/13/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

America helped pioneer the electric-vehicle revolution, yet today no major EV battery maker is based in the United States. Asia’s dominance reveals how sustained investment, organizational capabilities, and America’s embrace of shareholder value reshaped the global race for a critical technology.

The U.S. battery maker that could, and the U.S. auto company that wouldn’t

09/13/2026 Ineteconomics Analysis

General Motors once had the technology, talent, and partnership to lead the electric-vehicle revolution. Instead, it abandoned the EV1 and its battery venture while pouring billions into stock buybacks, helping turn an early American lead into decades of technological dependence.
Ovshinsky and Stempel
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