How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
How consolidation in dairy processing has led to overproduction of milk and dumping.
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Fiscal Austerity and the Rise of the Nazis
Local economic data and election results in Weimar Germany shows that more acute austerity led to more Nazi support.
Read more...Fed Economists Finger Monopoly Concentration as Underlying Driver of Neoliberal Economic Restructuring; Barry Lynn in Harpers and Fortnite Lawsuit Put Hot Light on Tech Monopoly Power
Some good work on monopoly is marred by the bizarre inclusion of Uber. Its predatory pricing is the result of deep pockets and ideology, not potential market power.
Read more...As Courts Re-Open, Britain’s Renters Must Confront the Power of Landlords
Renters and landlords need to come to terms in the Covid-19 new normal. But it’s not shaping up to be pretty.
Read more...Has CalPERS Come Clean With Its Board Over Pending $500 Million Carlyle Deal, Tainted by Ownership of Carlyle Shares by Departed CIO Ben Meng?
CalPERS needs to come clean about its Ben Meng mess. A pending Carlyle transaction shows it’s still in cover-up mode.
Read more...Major General Dennis Laich: Pentagon Needs a Bad Guy
Retired General Dennis Laich gives some insight into America’s permanent war policy.
Read more...What Will the Real American Resistance Look Like — Chaotic Rebellion or Organized General Strikes?
As lower and middle income Americans slide into dire straits thanks to Covid-19, political pressure is building. But are Americans capable of rebellion?
Read more...“Everything’s Fine”: The Comfortable, the Afflicted, the Beakwetters, the Gaslit
Rant, annotated.
Read more...The A Levels Results Crisis and the Covid Education Train Wreck
Covid-19 is increasing inequality in educational outcomes, and that problem isn’t going away any time soon.
Read more...Summer Rerun: Journey Into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision
An examination of libertarian thinking, based on the work of one of its strong-form proponents, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Moonlights? Implausibly Denies Relationship With Top Speakers’ Bureau
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost does not appear to have a good grasp of the conflict-of-interest rules that apply to her role.
Read more...House Democrats Introduce Urgent Bill to End ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ of Postal Service by Postmaster General
Democrats wake up awfully late in the game to the importance of protecting the Post Office from looting, um, privatizing. Are they too late?
Read more...The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!
Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...CalPERS Digs Its Ben Meng Defenestration Hole Deeper: Claims Knowledge of Abuse Months Ago; Notice for Emergency Closed Session Legally Invalid Unless CEO Frost’s Job Is on the Line
CalPERS is bizarrely unable to control its bad impulses.
Read more...COVID-19 and the California Prison Crisis: 24th San Quentin Inmate Dies Last Friday
The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
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