Perspectives on the Harlan County train block protest as direct action, issues with the protest camp, Kentucky politics, and a “just transition” from coal.
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Sunday, August 25, 2024
Coal, and the Harlan County Coal Miners Who Blocked a Train Over Bankrupt Blackjewel’s Wage Theft
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:25 pm | 21 Comments »
Links 9/15/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 183 Comments »
How Money Can Turn Electoral Results Upside Down
The column uses data from French elections since 1993 to show that an increase in spending per voter has consistently increased a candidate’s vote share.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:25 am | 3 Comments »
Links 9/14/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 200 Comments »
Dude! Where’s My Democracy?
People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally undemocratic.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:46 am | 37 Comments »
Majority in US Back Free College Tuition and Student Debt Cancellation, New Poll Finds
Sanders’ and Warren’s supposedly wild eyed ideas of cancelling student debt and making college tuition free get a thumbs up in a new poll.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Student loans, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:37 am | 66 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: The Democrat debates, with drinking games and Biden on record-players, impeachment, think tanks, Robeson County, jobless claims, consumer sentiment, retail sales, consumer price index, Boeing, Lenovo Yoga laptops, feelings
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 114 Comments »
48 States to Investigate Google: Anti-Trust or Politicking?
The messy politics of the 48 state Google anti-trust investigation.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 5 Comments »
Links 9/13/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 255 Comments »
The US Massively Underestimates the Trade War Blowback
US trade and economic sanctions not only have not delivered on their stated aims, but they’ve also had unwelcome side effects.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:46 am | 40 Comments »
Modi’s Kashmir Power Grab Was Decades in the Making
Repeated constitutional attacks paved the way for the government to finally strip Kashmir of its rights.
Topics: Guest Post, India, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:28 am | 15 Comments »
Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #5 in Houston
All the candidates on one stage! Come on down!
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 7:30 pm | 168 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Harris, Sanders, Axelrove on Trump, Hillary Clinton, 9/11, counterfeit gold bars, rail traffic, WeWork, Facebook, food wars, gas flaring, wind farms and landfills, ocean drilling, racism and origins of tech, fake meat, Daniel Johnston, spending less time on the phone
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 113 Comments »
Kalecki, Minsky, and “Old Keynesianism” Vs. “New Keynesianism” on the Effect of Monetary Policy
Larry Summers, a barometer of leading edge conventional wisdom, questions Keynesianism as a distortion of Keynes and for its overconfidence in monetary policy.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 16 Comments »
Links 9/12/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 147 Comments »