The Role of Default Settings in Online Searches: Challenging Google Dominance
A meaningful level of onsumers will opt out of the default setting of Google as their search engine, particularly if prompted early and often
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Satyajit Das: SVB Collapse and Bank Turmoil – Latest Chapter in the Unwinding
Peeling back more layers of the SVB implosion and its broader implications.
Read more...US Officials Make Non-Bailout Bailout of Silicon Valley and Signature Bank and Continue Class Warfare
An over-zealous Fed pushed a few banks, including the big and super connected Silicon Valley Bank, over the edge. A bailout was a given.
Read more...Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media
Contrasting ideologies at play about the structure and role of social media mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics.
Read more...How Does JK Galbraith’s The New Industrial State Hold Up After 6 Decades?
How John Galbraith correctly called many developments that have had great political and economic significance, like the decline of unions
Read more...Crypto Bank Silvergate to Shut Down and Liquidate, After FDIC Examiners Show Up. Shares Collapse Entirely
Silvergate: In 16 months from $239 at peak crypto consensual hallucination to $2.76, including the 44% plunge afterhours.
Read more...Workers’ Responses to the Threat of Automation
How effectively do workers perserve their position relative to automation?
Read more...Biden Administration Urged to Take More Aggressive Steps to Relieve Medical Debt
The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Read more...Why Student Debt Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical
Discuss: “The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness. Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough.”
Read more...What If the World Cannot Save the World from Climate Change?
How climate change reveals a crisis of international governance.
Read more...Rail Workers Warn Safety Bill Loopholes Are Big Enough to ‘Run a Freight Train Through’
Post East Palentine rail safety reform proposals are embarrassingly unserious.
Read more...New York Fed Identifies a New Way Dollar Hegemony Is Not Good for Emerging Economies and Other Growing Things
Another mechanism by which US does harm through our indifference to to the impact of our dollar/interest rate policies on other countries.
Read more...The Fiscal Side of Europe’s Energy Crisis: The Facts, Problems and Prospects
A deep dive into the costs and impact of the recent, large-scale European energy subsidies.
Read more...Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
Read more...Identifying the Real Resistance
Can the rich be trusted to fix a breaking world? Or should the real resistance unite beneath one banner?
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