Gaius Publius: What Would Happen if Sanders Ran for President in 2020?
Speculating on Sanders 2020…
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EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That
The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.
Read more...Corporatizatizing The All-Administrative University
How parasitic administrators are ruining university education.
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Matt Bruenig: What Actually Happened in Alabama?
Why the mainstream story of Doug Jones’ win in Alabama is utterly wrong.
Read more...The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
Read more...Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Workplace Performance
Bad bosses hurt performance! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Guess Which Schools and Degrees Produce the Most Student Loan Defaults? Hint: It’s Not the Humanities
A revealing dive into student loan data.
Read more...Is The Oil Glut Set To Return?
EA gives a downbeat forecast for oil prices in 2018.
Read more...Newly-Declassified Documents Show Western Leaders Promised Gorbachev that NATO Would Not Move “One Inch Closer” to Russia
Newly-declassified records bolster Russia’s claim that the US and its European allies reneged on commitments to Russian security.
Read more...Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies
Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.
Read more...Incoming Board Member Margaret Brown Criticizes CalPERS’ Plan to Hurt Beneficiaries by Hiring Unnecessary, High-Priced Private Equity Middlemen; CalPERS Violates Open Meeting Rules by Advancing Plan in Secret
Incoming CalPERS board member Margaret Brown dishes out some straight talk on where the giant pension fund needs to shape up.
Read more...The Crisis Ahead: The U.S. Is No Country for Older Men and Women
Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...Student Loan Defaults Approach 5 Million….Using a Very Permissive Definition of “Default”
The latest sighting on the student loan front is not pretty, and would be even uglier if the right metrics were used.
Read more...Three Surprises on Climate Change from Economist Michael Grubb
A tiny bit of good, or perhaps more accurately, less bad news on the climate change front.
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