Don Quijones: The Steep Price of Disaster in Mexico
Although the death toll is far less than the ’85 earthquake, Mexico now faces rebuilding with no insurance and little government aid.
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More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
Yet more evidence that the private equity market is overheated.
Read more...Hookworm Persists as US Public Health Problem
Hookworm, thought to be largely eradicated in the US, persists in Lowndes, County, Alabama, due to poor sanitation and inadequate regulation.
Read more...GAO Report Finds Rural Postal Service Remains Essential
More evidence that cutting back on rural postal service is a bad idea.
Read more...Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust
Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?
How Do Countries ’Get to Denmark‘?
Read more...Trump Using Failed Australian “Asset Recycling” to Justify Mass Privatizations
Why would Trump adopt a foreign model for infrastructure that even conservatives deemed a failure? Apparently for the looting.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...China Cannot Finance the Belt and Road Alone
The One Belt One Road initiative holds great promise for the global economy, but will need a huge amount of finance. Initial presumptions that China would be able to provide all the finance are now unrealistic. Other partners should consider providing finance for some aspects, especially Europe – which has a lot to gain from the project.
Read more...The Trump Administration’s FCC Tries to Roll Back Net Neutrality
How the Obama Administration established net neutrality, why the Trump administration wants to roll it back, and what you can do.
Read more...Do We Understand the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment?
Artificial intelligence is already transforming the world of work, but the future is hard to predict. Some see most jobs at risk of automatisation, while others argue robots will only take on a narrow range of tasks in the coming decades. Nevertheless, we need a broad debate to prepare the appropriate economic policy response to the new industrial revolution.
Read more...Trump EPA Cuts Will Hamper Efforts to Enforce Lead Standards for Drinking Water
TRNN interview with Erik Olson discussing water safety in the US, where 18 million people are served by water systems with lead violations.
Read more...America’s Hidden Water Affordability Crisis
Why water is a stealth crisis in places like Seattle and Atlanta and will become an economic and social problem for more cities soon.
Read more...Red State Rural America Is Acting on Climate Change — Without Calling It Climate Change
Reframing climate change to address co-benefit issues seems logical, and we can look for local government leaders in red states to lead the way
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