The First Year of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Is Mired in Red Tape
How Georgia’s Medicaid work rules are operating as planned.
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No Country for Old Men (or Women): Pensioners in Argentina Bear Brunt of Milei’s Hardcore Austerity
Cloaked in a flimsy veil of libertarianism, neoliberalism is not just alive and well in Argentina; it’s more virulent than ever.
Read more...Can We Afford the Welfare State?
Unpacking why the obstacle to preserving the welfare state is not national income or demographics but rentiers increasing their take.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: On Models, Markets, and Disagreement
A look at prediction market reactions to the Harris-Trump debate, and why they need to be taken with at least a bit of salt.
Read more...Why Must Humans Compete for Electric Power with AI Bullshit Generators Programmed by Ritual Incantations?
A takedown of AI so-called “prompt engineering.”
Read more...Albrt: Naked Capitalism – a Home for the Heterodox
How Naked Capitalism is doing the work virtually no other site does and also provides a refuge for independent thinkers.
Read more...The Rise of the Science Sleuths
When an Alzheimer’s paper came under scrutiny, correcting the scientific record meant battling much bigger problems.
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Putin Calls for Sanctions Revenge, Threatens to Cap Uranium Exports
Russia is considering restricting commodities exports such as uranium to what it has called “unfriendly” countries.
Read more...The Rev Kev: And Now for Something Completely Different
Some celebrities make special guest appearances to urge you to donate generously to Naked Capitalism.
Read more...Official US Poverty Rate Declined in 2023, but More People Faced Economic Hardship
The arguably better official measure of US poverty says the poor are getting poorer.
Read more...How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?
A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.
Read more...No Solid Scientific Basis for Degrowth
Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.
Read more...A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.
Read more...A Dilly in Philly: Kamala v. Trump Presidential Debate Live Blog
Volatility is the central feature of this election, despite all efforts to keep things stable. It follows that the debate will be volatile.
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