Easter Eggs and Trojan Horses in the Democrats’ Flagship Bill, H.R. 1 (“For the People Act of 2019”)
HR 1 will increase the Democrat’s institutional power (and the power of the intelligence community as well).
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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: 2020 and open thread (for now).
Read more...How Stupid Do They Think We Are? – Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo
Shredding bad excuses for a bad health care system.
Read more...Striking Teachers in Denver Shut Down Performance Bonuses – Here’s How That Will Impact Education
Denver teachers were able to put an end to a performance bonus system they argued was capricious. What impact might this change have?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/21/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Harris, the Obama Presidential Center, US internal migration, durable goods, manufacturing, leading indicators, jobless claims, home sales, Amazon, Facebook, antitrust, lawns, forests, apples, permafrost, cooperation, slavery, wages, crapification
Read more...Don’t “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Why the Schumer/Sanders bill on stock buybacks isn’t a very good instrument for improving labor rights and work standards.
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Wolf Richter: My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Ticks Down, Still Red-Lines. In Passing, Fed Plants Seed for Removing “Patient”
Not surprisingly, given economic weakness in Europe and China plus Trump trade war saber-rattling, the Fed seems less gung ho about the health of the economy than it was last summer.
Read more...Want to Pass Medicare For All? Make Voters Happy By Making Them Happy
Looking at the largely lame excuses for not implementing Medicare for All.
Read more...New Review of Dozens of Studies of Insect Population Decline, the Causes, and Things You Can Do
A review of the massive new study on insect population decline and its drivers.
Read more...Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Opioid abuse has strong economic roots, namely despair resulting from desperation in struggling communities.
Read more...France’s Institutional System Favours Rebellion Against Its Leader
The gilet jaunes movement proves that France’s political and budgetary centralism, the source of citizens’ feelings of abandonment and revolt, must be reformed.
Read more...Will The U.S. Actively Pursue Regime Change In Iran?
The US is still awfully eager to Do Something in Iran.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/19/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Harris and hot sauce, Sanders announces, housing market, oil, auto loans, warehouse fires, Google search, gardens, prairies, regenerative agriculture, palm oil, Colorado River, the KonMari method, vocal bursts, nihilism, fun with aircraft
Read more...Bill Black: Modern Monetary Theory Is On the March (#MMT)
A recent Wall Street Journal article that tried debunking MMT effectively supported it.
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