2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: IA-03, #Resistance tsotchkes, Tesla, Steam, quarterly reporting, Internet of Things, Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy, temporarily ope thread
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Medicare Part D: Delight, or Debacle?
My first foray into real Medicare.
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The Zero-Sum Economy
Is the problem with the economy the amount of stultifying work, or that too much work is really about more and more aggressive competition for income?
Read more...How to Calculate the Costs of #MedicareForAll Properly
A takedown of the Mercatus #MedicareForAll debacle from MMT’s macro-economic bookkeeping perspective.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Chelsea Clinton, AOC, Uber, dumb phones, temporarily open thread.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren’s Proposal for “Co-Determination”: Really a Second New Deal?
Strengths, weaknesses, and context of Elizabeth Warren’s “Accountable Capitalism Act”
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Brexit Is a Consequence of Low Upward Mobility
In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.
Read more...The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism
In the end, it comes down to one thing: who controls the national narrative.
Read more...A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Chutzpah!
Read more...How Turkey’s Crisis Might Fracture NATO
Turkey is already deep in debt, and all the U.S. is offering is a doubling of sanctions and more insults.
Read more...What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?
The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?
Read more...Richard Murphy: “First, Let’s Kill All the Accountants” – On Accounting’s Systemic Failure
Why taking accounting for granted is a really bad idea.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China and LNG, NAFTA, Warren and co-determination, campaign advertising, Russia probe, Brennan, leading indicators, consumer sentiment, complex information
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