David Dayen, Author at Pacific Standard

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Economics

Banks Don’t Do Much Banking Anymore—and That’s a Serious Problem

As hedge funds, private equity firms, and other asset managers that make up the shadow banking system gradually take over the role of lending, their risks—and the borrowed money they use to make them—are largely shielded from view.

David Dayen

A D.C. outsider, Duncan Black set out to change the national debate on Social Security.

Social Justice

How a Frustrated Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea

Thanks to decades of stagnant wages and the Great Recession, more than half of American working-class households are at risk of being unable to sustain their standard of living past retirement. Duncan Black is trying to change that.

David Dayen

Economics

Will Rising Mortgage Rates Put an End to the Housing Recovery?

Rising rates will obviously send monthly payments higher, but they'll also affect the market in a more unusual way: They're going to hurt all-cash investor purchases of housing, which have been a boon to the most distressed markets.

David Dayen

Education

Is California About to Embark on a Gigantic New Experiment in Public Education?

Jerry Brown’s education plan asks, “Why not just give poor schools more state money—and authority over how to spend it?” His idea mirrors some of the most promising new theories of global development.

David Dayen