Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
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Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?
Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?
Read more...AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
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Google Postpones Employee Return till Mid 2021 as Office Buildings Remain Empty, Residential Delinquencies Soar
White collar workers staying away from the office does not bode well for confidence about getting Covid under control.
Read more...US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea
Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?
Read more...Our John Siman Wins Kukula Award for Non-Fiction Book Reviewing
John Siman wins a prize! Please join us in congratulating him!
Read more...Why Don’t Democratic Leaders Support Verifiable Elections? The Reason Is Simple and Obvious
Some evidence of design in the Democrats’ indifference to the integrity of elections.
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?
Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Populism is Not Mob Rule
Liberal elites see mass movements as endangering their ‘educated and wise leadership’. Populism and anti-populism has deep roots in American history.
Read more...Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is Not Coming Back
Why corporations are past the high water mark for global commerce.
Read more...Essential – and Expendable – Labor, in Mexico, for the US
How workers in Mexico are now essential—to U.S. corporations.
Read more...Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 Across Age and Income
A six-country look at who is affected by Covid-19 and what there responses tend to be.
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