The caliber of discourse has degenerated utterly at NC in the wake of Charlotteville. I am disabling comments on all live posts. I am sick, now up until 9 AM ruining my health. I do not need this bullshit. It is not worth the effort to clean up the disinformation and the upset and dishonest […]
Read more...Things are so bad at Uber that planted stories are falling apart within days.
Read more...Yves here. Notice how all the hysteria over evil Rooskies, North Korea, and neo-Nazis on the march has diverted media attention away from fights over economic issues? In Illinois, Governor Rauner is pushing through a scheme to curb funding to schools that is designed to hit lower property tax districts and Chicago particularly hard. Some […]
Read more...Brexit is the incomprehension of a former imperial power, wistfully hoping to recreate a long-gone global sphere of influence.
Read more...Musing on why the Fed is so eager to raise interest rates.
Read more...Why the argument that public company ownership contributes to monopoly power is wrong-headed.
Read more...The war on cash, to enable central banks to implement negative interest rates on ordinary citizens, continues.
Read more...Lee Camp gives a first person account of the violence at Charlottesville.
Read more...The New York Times’ latest dubious achievement: how many lies it managed to tell in a single story about French labor laws.
Read more...Stagnant restaurant sales show consumers are tapped out.
Read more...Why a consumption tax does not hold up under close scrutiny.
Read more...The Uber soap opera continues, and the New York Times is doing its part by applying lots of porcine maquillage.
Read more...How up and coming Democrats in the 1970s and 1980s decided being wannabe Republicans was a path to power.
Read more...In a remarkably cheeky move, CalPERS CIO Ted Eliopoulos is fobbing off his main job duties on a subordinate. Will the sleepy board react?
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