Crapification, Vanguard Style: Customer Service Rep Bullies Your Humble Blogger into Taking Security Risk
Vanguard behaves very badly.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
Stimulus Talks on Verge of Failure as Both Sides Trade Blame
No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
Read more...Why Taiwan Is at the Heart of a Geopolitical Struggle to Produce Cutting-Edge Computer Chips
Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2020
COVID round the world and in US regions ~ Party on! ~ Biden Corvette ad (good) ~ Biden fundraising, ad spend ~ Jamaal Bowman lets the cat out of the bag ~ Employment, rail, household debt ~ Southwest ~ Chickens and teargas ~ Abolishing race ~ Employment in DC vs. New York ~ Sid!
Read more...Peter Kuznick: Why Did Americans Accept Barbaric Slaughter of Japanese Civilians?
In 1939, Roosevelt decried targeting civilians as “inhuman barbarism”. In 1945, the U.S. firebombed Japanese cities and dropped nuclear bombs.
Read more...Links 8/6/2020
CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Resigns Following Our Exposing His False, Felonious Financial Disclosure Filings and Private Equity Conflicts of Interest
CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng has left abruptly. If you’ve been paying attention, this isn’t a total surprise.
Read more...Mass Gatherings Contributed to Early COVID-19 Mortality: Evidence from US Sports
A clever and disconcerting analysis shows how much big indoor gatherings boosted Covid-19 deaths.
Read more...Why International Financial Regulation Still Falls Short
Financial regulators still don’t like to tame bubbles even after seeing how costly it is when they go boom. Shame, that.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/5/2020
COVID up-and-comers, swing states ~ Biden blows a gasket on cognitive testing question ~ Biden foreign policy ~ Allan Lichtman of keys fame predicts Trump loss ~ Cori Bush victory in Missouri ~ Employment, services, trade ~ Immunology ~ “The Science” ~ The Louvin Brothers ~ Adam Tooze
Read more...International Trade Has Cost Americans Millions of Jobs. Investing in Communities Might Offset Those Losses
After too many years of “Let them eat training,” a more practical answer to trade-induced job losses.
Read more...Links 8/5/2020
Washington Going Full Andrew Mellon as Stimulus Talks Drag, Inadequate Support Guaranteed
An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
Read more...Remembering John Weeks
John Weeks was a leading critic of economic orthodoxy who dedicated his life to building a better world.
Read more...Preserve Our Post Office, Before It’s Too Late
It ought to be stunning that the Post Office needs to be defended….
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