The Economics of Neutrality in World War II
Neutrality in World War II meant appeasing the belligerents.
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Links 11/12/19
Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors
Google now wants to play doctor.
Read more...Brexit: Farage Capitulates…or Does He?
NIgel Farage does Boris a solid. But the Tories want more concessions. Are they forthcoming?
Read more...The Many Ways Sanders and Warren Are Different & Why It Matters
A look at key policy differences between Sanders and Warren.
Read more...Hope You Can Come to Our Birmingham Meetup Thursday November 21
Birmingham meetup next week! Hope you can make it!
Read more...Roiled Repo Markets: Looking for Answers in All the Wrong Places
If you are worried about repo, you are worried about the wrong thing. If anything, it’s a symptom of too much liquidity demand from the FX swaps market.
Read more...30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided
Why Eastern Germany is still a place apart.
Read more...Links 11/9/19
The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars
Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Read more...Links 11/8/19
Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result
The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.
Read more...‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008
CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
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