Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
Why what looks like a trade problem is really a financialization problem, and therefore there are much better solutions than using tariffs.
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European Court of Justice Nixes “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” Intra EU, Raising Doubts About Its Future
Is it the beginning of the end for “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” clauses that have undermined democracies, and specifically, labor and environmental protection?
Read more...How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Read more...Links 3/7/18
Is “US Energy Dominance” Overhyped? Top Experts Doubts Claims About Future Net Energy Exports
Why US energy production forecasts, specifically from shale plays, may be exaggerated in a serious way.
Read more...How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Hyping Amazon Banking: “Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous”
The Wall Street Journal gets itself duped into publishing some particularly flaky, um, nebulous, um, aspirational Amazon banking ideas.
Read more...Links 3/6/18
Brexit-Induced Pillaging of the UK Starts: US Fleecing UK on Must-Have Air Transport Pact
Yet another Brexit shoe is about to drop….this one on the aviation front.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Slams Democrats for Helping Gut Financial Regulations
The financial services industry is about to get even more unnecessary, risk-feeding breaks, thanks in no small measure to Democrats.
Read more...Killing a Parasite, Part 2 — How to Implement Student Debt Cancellation
How to fix the student problem – now and going forward.
Read more...So Bad the DoJ Woke Up: Saline Bag Makers Look to Have Endangered Patients Via Illegal “Tying” and Price Gouging
Saline bags are a new example of medical industrial complex rent extraction that also put patients at risk.
Read more...Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Why it might make sense to pay heed on what the Mafia hath wrought….
Read more...Links 3/3/18
Even McKinsey Gets It: High Wages Improve Economic Performance
McKinsey is turning on neoliberal orthodoxy by advocating high employment, high wage, high demand policies.
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