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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Google Censorship: AI Run Amok Threatens Demonetization Over a Navigation Page with No Ads, An Article on a Foreign Policy Best-Seller Deemed Anti-Vaxx, and More Flagrant Errors
Topics: Media watch, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 8:00 pm | 23 Comments »
Links 3/19/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 46 Comments »
UK Citizens Just Got a Brief Foretaste of the Inherent Fragility of a Cashless Economy
Unlike digital forms of payment, cash does not crash.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 7 Comments »
Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit
Even though the rich are predictably getting richer even in the Covid era, the picture is worse when you look at billionaires.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment outlook
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:43 am | 14 Comments »
Introduction to Swing States in the Presidential Election of 2024 (General Survey)
It’s swing voters from the swingiest states, like Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, who will really matter.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 pm | 20 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemic news, Boeing, Keith Richards (and Trump’s surety bond). ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 71 Comments »
Links 3/18/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 216 Comments »
Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:02 am | 15 Comments »
Minneapolis Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Uber and Lyft Minimum Rates
“Essential” workers are cross-sectoral organizing across Minnesota and scoring victories.
Topics: Corporate governance, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 10 Comments »
“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Topics: Auto industry, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Global warming, Guest Post, Income disparity, Permaculture, Politics, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:32 am | 68 Comments »
Links 3/17/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 150 Comments »
Collapse on the EU Home Front
Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash.
Topics: Corporate governance, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Privatization, Russia, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 72 Comments »
Why Are Their Lordships So Frightened of Modern Monetary Theory?
Efforts are underway to discredit modern monetary theory in the UK.
Topics: Corporate governance, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, The dismal science, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 106 Comments »
Links 3/16/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 262 Comments »
What Is China’s Future? Economic Decline, or the Next Industrial Revolution?
China has become economically wobbly of late. What does that portend?
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:57 am | 85 Comments »