Gaius Publius: Stephen Hawking on What Killed the World of the Jetsons. Prelude to Thoughts on a Guaranteed Jobs Program
Hawking showed a not-surprisingly acute grasp on the implications of technological unemployment.
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Wolf Richter: Collapse of Cryptocurrencies in Q1 – Even the Biggest Crashed 67% to 88%
Cyrptocurrencies’ wild ride is looking more and more like a skydive with no parachute.
Read more...Leaky Fed: New Study Uses Taxi Ride Data to Show Increase in Visits When Blackout Lifted and Around FOMC Meetings
Taxi ride data suggests that the Fed is throwing some juicy informational bones to big banks, whether by accident or design.
Read more...The US Arms Machine: Why Wars R Us
Putting some facts and figures of the scale of the US arms merchant business.
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Climate Policy: When Starting With the Most Expensive Option Makes Sense
Why much of what you thought you knew about climate change mitigation is wrong.
Read more...How to Democratise Brexit and Take Back Control of our Future: An Appeal to Jeremy Corbyn
Now that the Brexit realities are starting to sink in, pundits are finding new magic sparkle ponies to tout as possible solutions.
Read more...How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
Time to look harder at the reasons for rising opioid deaths.
Read more...Links 3/30/18
Current Kentucky Retirement Systems Trustees Considering Throwing Predecessors Under the Bus to Get Blackstone and KKR
Is a pension fund management revolution brewing in what would seem to be the most unlikely place, that hotbed of corruption, the Kentucky Retirement Systems?
Read more...Why We Should Not Be Surprised Trump Could Do a Deal Over Nuclear Weapons with North Korea
Believe it or not, Trump has had a long standing interest in nuclear proliferation.
Read more...Callling All Twin Cities Residents! Be Sure to Swing by the Minneapolis Meetup Tomorrow PM, Saturday March 31
A reminder about the Minneapolis meetup this evening: Locals, be sure to stop by!
Read more...Gaius Publius: How to Turn Off Third-Party Data Access to Your Facebook Account
A how-to for people who can’t give up on Facebook but want to reduce their snooping exposure.
Read more...Trumponomics, the Left and the Return of Protectionism
Antipathy for all things Trump, including Trumponomics, is leading some “progressive” economists to change their positions on “free trade”.
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