More details and photos for our Maine meetup this week. Hope to see you!
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
Meetup Reminder: Hope You Can Stop by Our Mid-Coast/Bailey Island Maine Meetup Wednesday Sept 4
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:45 pm | 19 Comments »
Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil
While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:55 pm | Comments Off on Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil
Links 9/2/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | Comments Off on Links 9/2/19
CEO Compensation Increased 940% Between 1978 and 2018, Workers’ Only by 12%
An Economic Policy Institute study shows that the dramatic increase in CEO compensation has a large impact on increasing inequality. Absent the explosive rise in CEO compensation, worker pay could have doubled.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:25 am | Comments Off on CEO Compensation Increased 940% Between 1978 and 2018, Workers’ Only by 12%
My First Real Jobs
Shelving books and mowing lawns.
Topics: Guest Post, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:25 pm | Comments Off on My First Real Jobs
Links 9/1/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:57 am | Comments Off on Links 9/1/19
AOC Calls Out Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill
AOC: Former government officials “should not become corporate lobbyists, in letter or spirit.”
Topics: Banana republic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | Comments Off on AOC Calls Out Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill
Announcing Comments Holiday Through September 7
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:28 pm | 54 Comments »
Links 8/31/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 99 Comments »
Bill Black: Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt?
Bill Black presents evidence the system is corrupt and rigged against ordinary people – a sentiment with which a new poll shows many agree.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 1:25 am | 87 Comments »
A Question of Character
An indicator that “character” is no longer valued much, and why that matters.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:18 am | 86 Comments »
Clever Tactics “Add Oil” to Hong Kong Protests (and not “Hidden Hands”)
A look at protest tactics in Hong Kong: Umbrellas, Lennon Walls, laser pointers, human chains… And maybe catapults?
Topics: China, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 pm | 94 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/30/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden gaffe, Gabbard, Sanders on foreign policy, Trump, Warren, AOC, anti-fascism, personal income and outlays, consumer confidence, employment situation, robot cars, passive investing bubble, Hurricane Dorian, Joe Rogan, scofflaw coal companies, bail, the hyphen
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 97 Comments »
Links 8/30/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 173 Comments »
Marshall Auerback: We Are Clearly Living in a Bizarro Capitalism Era—And It’s Time to Change How the World Manages Economies
Central banks don’t have the tools to address our problems. It will take well-constructed fiscal policy to set right our topsy-turvy economy.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Macroeconomic policy, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 69 Comments »