The Destructive Power of Preemption: How Congress Can Use It to Bar State Action on Climate
How federal preemption of environmental rules can stymie the plans of California and other states to ignore Trump’s policies.
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Reminder: Join Us at Our NYC Meetup This Evening!
If you are in the NYC metro area, be sure to come to our meetup tonight!. The more the merrier!
Read more...Philip Pilkington: To What Extent Is Economics an Ideology and to What Extent Is It a Useful Theory?
Why economics is more like phrenology than physics.
Read more...“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”
Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...More Brexit Delusion: City Issues Wish List That the EU Already Rejected
When you’d thought the British had reached the limits of outlandishness on the Brexit front, they manage to outdo themselves.
Read more...How Tillerson Could Jeopardize Geopolitics In Iraq
Rex Tillerson’s deal with the Kurds when he was Exxon CEO undermined the US in Iraq. How would he square this circle if confirmed?
Read more...Lessons From the Demise of the TPP
Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
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Calling Readers! Fight for Corruption-Busting SC Treasurer Curt Loftis As GOP Tries to End His Pension Oversight Role
Pension-corruption-fighter/state Treasurer Curt Loftis is under attack. Urge everyone you know in South Carolina to come to his defense.
Read more...Wolf Richter: What’s Going on with the Banks? Citi Cuts Goldman to “Sell,” after Goldman Cut Citi to “Neutral”
Citi and Goldman downgrades suggest the Trump trade may be overdone.
Read more...How ’60 Minutes’ Became a Pentagon Mouthpiece for Drone War
Drone warfare as an example of how the military uses overly-cozy news outlets to sell its pet initiatives.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can’t Levitate a Broken Economy
How central banks’ policy remedies have taken big steps backwards.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI
Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
Read more...House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Read more...Obamacare: Republican Leaders Trying to Quell Revolting Senators
Enough Republicans are concerned about the downside of simply ending Obamacare to put a brake on efforts to repeal it.
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