Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech
Contrary to its image as a cash-strapped, open public service, Wikipedia tries to hide that it is a wealthy NGO with close ties to big tech.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.
Read more...Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?
Biden”s Central America plan includes US funding of domestic security forces to keep citizens put and support foreign economic exploitation.
Read more...We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History
Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.
Read more...Philanthrocapitalists: The Pied Pipers of ‘Modern Slavery’?
Hundreds of millions of dollars for anti-trafficking/slavery sidesteps how rich countries exploit labour in poor nations.
Read more...Ponzis Go Boom!!!
The SPAC market is in the process of detonating and it will take the Ponzi Sector with it.
Read more...Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Read more...Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
Read more...Incomplete and Indecisive USPS Board Flounders and Awaits Direction
Despite Biden moving to fill open USPS board seats, don’t get your hopes up.
Read more...Why Won’t Doctors Take Cash?
Are my weird run-ins with doctors over “self pay” just anomalies or are they symptoms of other changes in business practices?
Read more...Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
Read more...Postal Service Saboteur Louis DeJoy Is Making Biden And Congress Look Impotent – Or Worse
Louis DeJoy deserves a special place in hell…although a permanent MOF audit might be an adequate punishment.
Read more...Why Can’t the IRS Just Send Americans a Refund – or a Bill?
Believe it or not, it’s not the fault of the IRS that tax return prep is such a hassle.
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