Stimulus Talks on Verge of Failure as Both Sides Trade Blame
No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
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Why Taiwan Is at the Heart of a Geopolitical Struggle to Produce Cutting-Edge Computer Chips
Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.
Read more...Why International Financial Regulation Still Falls Short
Financial regulators still don’t like to tame bubbles even after seeing how costly it is when they go boom. Shame, that.
Read more...Washington Going Full Andrew Mellon as Stimulus Talks Drag, Inadequate Support Guaranteed
An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
Read more...Call for ‘Emergency Charity Stimulus’ as Billionaire Wealth Soars and US Nonprofits Sink
Charity reform would help deploy more funds to address more Covid-19 needs, but the real remedy lies in much bolder government spending.
Read more...How’s Your Economy, Small Businesses Death Watch Edition
A reader query focused on small businesses.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Read more...Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA
IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...Google Postpones Employee Return till Mid 2021 as Office Buildings Remain Empty, Residential Delinquencies Soar
White collar workers staying away from the office does not bode well for confidence about getting Covid under control.
Read more...The War Nerd: Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence
War Nerd Newlestter 100:Irish potato famine and more: a tour d’horizon through AK Sen, Victorian literature, et.al.
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is Not Coming Back
Why corporations are past the high water mark for global commerce.
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