Yearly Archives: 2020
Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...Links 11/14/2020
Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/13/2020
~ Covid charts ~ Democrats in disarray, CIA Democrats ~ Biden’s defense team is defense contractors ~ Ron Klain ~ The “Latinx” vote ~ Alabama’s Tuberville, Kentucky’s Rogers ~ Horrid Apple OS rollout ~ Is America in decline? ~ Gratitude
Read more...2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade
A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.
Read more...Links 11/13/2020
The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Read more...Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats
Ticketmaster wants to use technology to make events safer. Too bad its ideas are intrusive and medically questionable.
Read more...Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/12/2020
~ Covid chart ~ Unimpressive Michigan affidavits ~ Epistemological crises ~ Biden walkbacks begin ~ Trump v. Biden spending per vote ~ The awfulness of Proposition 22 ~ Obama’s new book ~ Google bills for storage ~ Bank of Solidarity
Read more...Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures
Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?
Read more...Links 11/12/2020
Home Health Aide Services for the Elderly as a Lemon Market
Some shaggy dog stories and analysis on wh the home health care aide industry performs poorly, at least here in the US.
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