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Thursday, October 3, 2024
Links 9/26/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 246 Comments »
Cory Doctorow: Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the Making of a Whistleblower
A review of Edward Snowden’s new book.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:01 am | 35 Comments »
Wolf Richter: How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance
Health insurance costs will kill you if your medical issues don’t get you first.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Private equity, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:27 am | 16 Comments »
Who Advocates For Surprise Medical Billing? – Private Equity Hides Behind Physicians’ White Coats
Private equity is a danger to your health via its role in suprise billing. To hang onto its meal ticket, it is funding dark money group and ads to block legislation.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Politics, Private equity
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:30 am | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/25/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Trump, Warren, impeachment fracas (especially the timing), democracy, the left, new home sales, business uncertainty, investor confidence, WeWork, Daimler, Boeing 737, sea level rise, rain forests, Clarence Thomas, Kaiser and GM strikes, machine malfunction
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 123 Comments »
After Climate-Focused 2020 Bid, Inslee Faces Indigenous Campaigners’ Demand to End All Fossil Fuel Projects in Washington
Governor Jay Inslee exposed as a climate change hypocrite.
Topics: Banana republic, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 8 Comments »
Links 9/25/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 204 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Asset-Price Inflation and Rent Seeking
A meaty new paper by Michael Hudson.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:56 am | 29 Comments »
Brexit: All Eyes on Boris
Why Johnson may not be over.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Legal, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:43 am | 68 Comments »
Big Tech ‘Nudges’ Our Behavior for Its Own Greed: Here’s a 4-Step Social Media Self-Defense Class
Some simple suggestions for how to keep tech from running your life.
Topics: Guest Post, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:04 am | 23 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/24/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Alert reader dk (not to be confused with DK) is in the process of developing the following interactive […]
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 148 Comments »
Take Your Pick of Left Wing Climate Change Narratives: Green Abundance or Righteous Austerity
Is there climate change orthodoxy?
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Media watch, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 176 Comments »
Links 9/24/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 285 Comments »
The Failure of Higher Education: A Tale of Two Diplomas
How teachers and students have meekly accepted the strangling of education.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:24 am | 65 Comments »
Trump’s Fannie/Freddie Privatization Giveaway: Why GSE Reform Is Hard
GSE reform is baack! Or not.
Topics: Banana republic, Credit markets, Free markets and their discontents, Hedge funds, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:08 am | 14 Comments »