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Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching
In the case of the American South, residential segregation did not allow the black community to insulate itself from interracial violence.
Read more...Ilargi: The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom
A skeptical look at a defense of stock market valuations.
Read more...World Bank Must Stop Encouraging Harmful Tax Competition
The World Bank manages to make the IMF look good…..
Read more...Brexit Stalls: Talks Deadlocked, Repeal Bill Postponed; Beginning of the End of No Deal Denialism?
No Brexit deal looks like the most likely outcome, as the UK side is only starting to look at how disastrous that would be.
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Spain Constitutional Reform Trial Balloon: Bona Fide or Headfake to Split Catalonia?
Is a rumor the Spain is considering Constitutional reforms in response to the crisis in Catalonia merely a gambit to isolate the separatists?
Read more...The Best Part of This Week
What you’ve told us this week about why this site and the community you’ve created matter to you.
Read more...Confirming First Boston Meetup Next Thursday, October 19
Providing details for our next meetup in Boston as well as confirming coming meetups.
Read more...John Helmer: Lunatic Russia-Hating in Washington Is 70 Years Old. It Started with Joseph Alsop, George Kennan and the Washington Post
The upper class origins of Russia-hating in the US.
Read more...How Naked Capitalism Got Me to Run for Office
How Naked Capitalism enabled a reader to act on promise to help those victimized by CalPERS’ bureaucracy.
Read more...Does Catalonia Have a Right to Secede?
Why the question of secession for Catalonia, or Scotland, or Quebec, isn’t easy to decide, practically and morally.
Read more...Trump Administration Picks Bizarre Fight With IMF Over Report Backing Taxing the Rich
The IMF makes a careful case for more redistribution.
Read more...On the Cost of Gun Ownership
Economists debate guns.
Read more...“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
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