Google is Evil….
A case study of how Google tortures customers.
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The Modi Government and India’s Economy
Why is India experiencing so much political upheaval when it has one of the fastest growing economies in the world?
Read more...Links 3/2/16
Merkel in Jeopardy: Germany’s European Hegemony, Refugees and Upcoming Elections
The inexorable political decline of Angela Merkel as well as her traditional opponents, the Social Democrats, is gathering pace.
Read more...Your Humble Guest Writer Talks Real Estate Economics and New York City
Why simple supply and demand stories people tell about real estate don’t work.
Read more...Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll Announce It Just as Soon as the Republican Presidential Candidates Tell Us Theirs
Clinton offers no details on her healthcare insurance scheme while her allies attack Sanders plan, often with easily debunked arguments.
Read more...A Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline is Next to a Nuclear Power Plant. What Could Go Wrong?
Someone needs to remind the overseers of old nuclear power plants that tail risks are greater than they think.
Read more...Links 3/1/16
Some Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Nearly Half a Million Jobs Lost in the US Alone
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will lead to job losses overall, with the US taking the biggest hit.
Read more...Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...John Helmer: FireEye – A Case Study in How the Financial Times Weaponizes Its Middle East Reporting
Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
Read more...James Galbraith: The Friedman v. Romers Growth Debate on the Sanders Plan – A Summing Up
How the real point of contention between Friedman and the Romers over the Sanders plan has been misconstrued.
Read more...Merkel Channels Varoufakis: “No Plan B,” in This Case, on Migrants
Is Angela Merkel’s “Plan B” remark a Freudian slip, a recognition that like Varoufakis, she’s alienated so many people that she can no longer cinch a deal?
Read more...Links 2/28/16
Donald Trump’s Truly Absurd, Word Salad, Gibberish Health Care Policy
Trump’s health care plan, to the extent it can even be called a plan, makes no sense.
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