Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
What has New York done to lower its suicide rate?
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Links 12/11/19
The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake
Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.
Read more...To Resolve the Economic & Environmental Crisis, Do Not Bank On the Private Sector
More political leaders are coming around to the idea of using government economic muscle to combat climate change. But will they act?
Read more...No End for Drought as Sydney Disappears Into Smoke
Is toxic haze the new normal for Sydney?
Read more...Payday Lenders Offering Installment Loans to Evade Regulations – But They May Be Even Worse
When is a payday loan still pretty much a payday loan? When it’s an installment loan with annual interest rates over 100%.
Read more...Misunderstanding Volcker
A reappraisal of Volcker, who was more hostile to workers and less hard on financiers than the press would have you believe.
Read more...A Window into European Versus US Management
Evidence keeps accumulating that American management is rotten.
Read more...“Less-Lethal” Weapon Abuse in Chile
On the deliberately vicious use of supposedly use of less lethal weapons.
Read more...BBVA Compass Fails to Dispute, Much the Less Remedy, Retaliatory Swatting, Disclosure of Confidential Information, and Reckless Treatment of Elderly Customer
BBVA has not denied that an officer swatted an elderly woman on fabricated grounds as retaliation for documenting his reckless advice.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren’s “Foreign Policy”
Yves here. I hate to seem unduly hard on Warren, but she has made having detailed and supposedly well informed policy positions here calling card. This post by Ilargi examines one she volunteered, as opposed to backed into by being questioned in an interview or a debate. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer. an editor at Automatic […]
Read more...Links 12/7/19
The Geography of EU Discontent
The EU’s flyover, meaning areas in economic decline, are also its hotbeds of discontent and anti-EU sentiment.
Read more...Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.
Read more...US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow
A proposed provision in the so-called “NAFTA 2.0” to increase autoworker wages in Mexico is raising hackles south of the border.
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