Net Neutrality Supporters Face Off Against The FCC
Net neutrality is dead. Long live net neutrality.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Italy Holds A Mirror to a Broken Europe
The election of a right-wing, populist government in Italy exposes the economic and democratic shortcomings of the European project and its nationalist rivals.
Read more...How Purdue Pharma Hooked America on a Deadly Drug
Purdue Pharma’s slogan for OxyContin was: “The One to Start With and the One to Stay With.” As reader Brian C added, “Stay with alright….’Till death do us part.'”
Read more...Cryptocurrencies Are Lousy Investments
A skeptical look at the prospects for cryptocurrencies.
Read more...Merkel’s Government Wobbles Over Immigrant Row as Italy Threatens Canada Trade Deal
Merkel had a bad day and things don’t seem likely to improve any time soon.
Read more...Why Are There So Many Unsheltered Homeless People in California?
Try guessing why San Francisco has encampments of homeless people….
Read more...Backstabbing Over Cows
The trouble with cows….
Read more...Poor Peoples Campaign Protests All Over US Ignored by Media
A young anti-poverty, anti-discrimination movement, the Poor Peoples Campaign, is starting to get traction.
Read more...The Roots of Argentina’s Surprise Crisis
How reforms by Argentina’s President Macri helped kick off a currency crisis.
Read more...Bill Black: Democrats Should Reject Bernanke’s ‘Wily E. Coyote’ Criticism of Trump’s Deficits
Bernanke engages in a new episode of ideologically motivated economic prognostication.
Read more...The Italian Mini-BOT Debate
More discussion of how well a proposed Italian parallel currency, the mini-BOT, might work in practice.
Read more...Who Says Labor Laws Are “Luxuries”?
The World Bank and IMF say developing economies can’t afford to have strong labor laws. Actually, they can’t afford not to.
Read more...Finally: SEC Frets about Share Buybacks, “Torrent of Corporate Trading Dominating the Market” and “Short-Term Financial Engineering”
Mirabile dictu, a Republican SEC commissioner criticizes stock buybacks….
Read more...Italy Bars Landing of Ship With 629 Migrants as Finance Minister Takes Euro Exit, Parallel Currency Off Table
Why the self-styled reformist government in Italy is already looking like a paper tiger.
Read more...Primaries Expose Bitter Fight in Democratic Party
The Democratic party continues to wage full scale war against progressives…..how’s that going?
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