Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy
Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.
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Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.
Read more...Greening Monetary Policy
Monetary policy favors carbon-intensive industries. Time to stop doing that.
Read more...Links 4/17/19
Festering Brexit
Even though the Good Friday/Easter weekend is coming up and Brexit matters are thus in low gear, the UK still seems stuck in its pattern of confusing motion with progress. A short list of updates: Labour-Tory talks still going nowhere. I’m not sure it would be progress even if the negotiations were going somewhere, since […]
Read more...‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
Read more...Americans Have No Idea What “Freedom of the Press” Means
Why First Amendment “freedom of the press” protections are far broader than most Americans realize.
Read more...Why China’s Current Account Balance Approaches Zero
China’s once-hefty current account surpluses are falling away. What are the implications?
Read more...Links 4/16/19
Mourning Notre Dame
A few sad words about the loss of Notre Dame.
Read more...How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
Read more...Sanders Takes the Campaign Against CAP to Eleven
Sanders takes off his gloves.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nineteen: Uber’s IPO Prospectus Overstates Its 2018 Profit Improvement by $5 Billion
Uber’s financial data in its S-1 filing is misleading and even inconsistent.
Read more...Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
Read more...Need Help With Venue for May 1 Milwaukee Meetup
Trying to sort out details for our upcoming Milwaukee meetup.
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