Announcing Our First Meetup of 2018: Friday January 12 in NYC
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Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Wired: Self Driving Car Hype Crashes Into Harsh Realities
Why self driving cars are not coming any time soon.
Read more...J. D. Alt: The New Poverty
“Community subsistence” as a way to address poverty on a broad-scale basis.
Read more...Erica Garner
Erica Garner has been declared brain dead.
Read more...What Sounds Better To You – Guaranteed Basic Income Or Federal Job Guarantee?
Even though a basic income sounds appealing, a job guarantee will do more to restructure power relations in society.
Read more...Links 12/28/17
Update: Cat scan shows Erica suffered major brain damage from a lack of oxygen while in cardiac arrest. Please continue to pray hard for Erica and pray for her family and kids just as much. — officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) December 28, 2017 Inside of a Dog New York Times (Joe H) Ontario FeederWatch All AboutBird. […]
Read more...Matt Stoller: “Monopoly is a Form of Lawlessness”
A high-level talk of the ebb and flow of monopoly power over the past century and what to do about them now.
Read more...Evidence from Peer Review That Women Are Held to Higher Standards
Evidence that women face higher obstacles to professional achievement than men.
Read more...How Nutrition “Science” Made the US and Other Countries Fatter
A deep dive into how an unproven nutrition theory, that saturated fats cause heart disease, became gospel, to the public’s detriment.
Read more...Crowdfunding Christmas: Time to Boycott It’s a Wonderful Life
How It’s a Wonderful Life sentamentalizes and reinforces the misguided policy idea that money is scarce and a private good.
Read more...Links 12/25/17
Cognitive Economics: How Self-Organization and Collective Intelligence Works
The challenge of understanding self-organizing groups.
Read more...Financial Stability Regulations: A (Non) Progress Report
A survey of major financial reform initiatives finds they have been insufficient. That’s not an accident.
Read more...Debunking Mainstream Economists on Secular Stagnation and the Loanable Funds Fallacy
An important, accessible takedown of the loanable funds theory, on which a ton of bad policy rests.
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