Lee Camp: Enjoy the Trump Show While Wall Street Pillages the Country
Trump’s Wall Street allies are pleased that the press isn’t paying much attention to market froth and rising debt as he pushes deregulation.
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More Brexit Backpedaling, UK May Relent on ECJ Red Line for “Transition Period”
Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
Read more...Ben Bernanke, in Denial? “When Growth is Not Enough”
Bernanke is selling the idea that things aren’t that bad….which is true if you are in the top 20%, which he also kinda acknowledges…
Read more...Bumbling Kentucky Retirement Systems Threatens Naked Capitalism With Half-Cocked Nastygram That Will Only Alienate Private Equity Fund Managers
Kentucky Retirement Systems huffs and puffs at Naked Capitalism.
Read more...Reminder Re Los Angeles Meetup This Saturday, July 15; Announcing San Francisco Meetup for Tuesday, July 18
Come and meet cool and colorful people! Members of the NC community have reported that they enjoy getting to know other readers, as well as having lively conversations. For Los Angeles, it seems no meetup time or place is optimal, given the spread of the city and its traffic, so I hope this compromise works […]
Read more...Aiding and Abetting Trump as Tweeter-in-Chief
The media fixation with Trump’s tweets is leading them to shirk real reporting on what Trump is up to.
Read more...Links 7/8/17
Why You Should Never Use a Supply and Demand Diagram for Labor Markets
Showing how using default models for labor markets is a dumb idea.
Read more...18 States Sue Betsy DeVos to Reinstate Rules Protecting Students from Predatory Private Colleges
More pushback against Betty DeVos’ support for educational profiteering.
Read more...Some Remarks on MMT & Marxism in Light of David Harvey’s “Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason”
How Marxists can make use of the MMT framework rather than falling for neoliberal dogma about money and debt.
Read more...Brexit Starts to Go Pear Shaped from UK Side as Businesses Freak Out
British businessmen are starting to wake up to what Brexit really means for them, but their proposed fixes are yet more wishful thinking.
Read more...EU Takes Stand Against Crapification
The EU takes a first step towards combatting planned obsolescence and manufacturer-only repairs.
Read more...Poverty, Crime and Causality
A Swedish study has some novel findings on the relationship between crime and poverty.
Read more...Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance
Why economists’ thinking about growth may be entirely backward.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Study Confirms that ACA Narrow Networks Exclude Top Cancer Doctors
A new study confirms NC’s longstanding observations of the dangers that narrow networks pose to participants in ACA plans.
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