Darkest Hour – What Does a Rash of Winston Churchill Portrayals Tell Us About Brexit Britain?
On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.
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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twelve: Brad Stone and Bloomberg Continue To Get the Uber Story Badly Wrong
How Brad Stone’s piece about “bad boy” Travis Kalanick is yet another effort to tell the most pro-Uber story possible at this point in time.
Read more...Is the Most Massive, Illegal Paywall in the World About to Come Down?
PACER’s days of massively overcharging and impeding legal research may be about to end.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...Increasing Minimum Wages Does More to Reduce Recidivism Than Prisoner Reentry Programs
Sometimes social engineering is easier than you think, as a new study on income incentives and recidivism shows.
Read more...Another Brexit Casualty: The Channel Tunnel, aka Eurostar
Why the impact of Brexit on Eurostar will literally be a train wreck.
Read more...Draghi’s Membership in Murky G30 Financial Group Under Fire
An official EU compliant about ECB chairman Mario Draghi puts the spotlight on a shadowy influence operation.
Read more...Links 1/20/18
Wolf Richter: What Will Rising Mortgage Rates Do to Housing Bubble 2?
Rising mortgage rate are about to do some damage to the house party.
Read more...Climate Change Mitigation Pays Off $6 for Every $1 Invested…As Funds Targeted for Cuts
Why more isn’t being done on the climate change mitigation front.
Read more...In Brexit Tug-of-War, EU Aims at City of London’s Tax-Haven Empire
The Brexit row over banking is starting is to come out into open….
Read more...Links 1/18/18
The Long-Term Care Crisis: Premiums Exploding, Leaving Seniors With “An Awful Choice”
More on the long-term care insurance train wreck.
Read more...5 Ways Capitalist Logic Has Sabotaged the Scientific Community
A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
How Amazon’s predatory non-profit model is a particularly potent form of rent extraction.
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