Rajiv Sethi: On Arrest Filters and Empirical Inferences
Wait ’til you get to “evidence” in quotes…
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8 Countries Where Rampant Inequality Has Led to Violence
Yes, Virginia, inequality is dangerous but that does not stop many of the really rich from wanting more. us.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Picking Up James Comey’s Pieces — What He Did, What He Should Have Done & Why
On the logic, such as it was, of FBI chief James Comey’s decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her e-mail chicanery.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Rooting for the Bulls
Bullfighting and the running of the bulls as symbols of Spain’s feudal past, and why they persist.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
How MBA programs reinforced the inequality-promoting neoliberal economic model.
Read more...The Sanders Revolution: North Dakota as an Example of the Long Tail of Grass Roots Activism
Incredible as it may seem, North Dakota’s progressive era Nonpartisan League influences state politics to this day.
Read more...Crisis After Brexit: Let Us Put An End to the Old Europe of Denigrators
Europe’s tall order for combatting Brexit: “What is called for is a union so good that people will want more of it.”
Read more...Bill Black and Stephanie Kelton: Is it Time for a New Deal Federal Jobs Program?
On the need for New Deal levels of spending on national priorities and the myths and political grifting that prevent it.
Read more...Bill Black: When Is Crime Not a Crime? When It Is White-Collar Crime
Yet another demonstration of how the media airbrushes out the very concept of white-collar crime.
Read more...Bill Black: BREXIT – Tony Blair
Tony Blair sides with the bankers and against the popular will. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
Independence Day’s roots as an “Americanization” PR project to increase acceptance of immigrants who competed with native-born workers.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How to Own a Slave
In what ways has the employer-employee relationship come to resemble slavery?
Read more...UK, EU Talk Past Each Other on Brexit Negotiations
The disconnect between the UK and EU over Brexit basics revealed yesterday was disconcerting.
Read more...Is Common-Sense Public Policy Necessarily “Innovative”?
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. (By Betteridge’s Law, no.) Readers will recall that I have often flagged “innovative,” along with “disruptive,” “startup,” “founder”, and (in the business context) “ecosystem” as bullshit tells, and recommended that if you hear such con artist’s patter in a crowd, you should put your hand on your wallet or clutch […]
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