Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2023

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How Monetary Policy Affects Bank Lending and Financial Stability: A ‘Credit Creation Theory of Banking’ Explanation

Another nail in “loanable funds”, which justfies austerity but does not explain how central banks produce credit and monetary growht.

Links 3/22/2023

Medicare Advantage Uses Algorithms to Block Care for Seniors

How AI is institutionalizing Medicare Adantage fraud, to the degree that appeals of denials often outrun the patient’s life.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/21/2023

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Some US Farmers Get Behind Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban, Reports Mexican Daily La Jornada

“We believe that Mexico has every right to ask for what it wants,” says Lynn Clarkson, chief executive of Illinois-based Clarkson Grain company. “As a supplier, the United States should give its customers what they want.”

Why is America So Anti-City? It Holds Back the Entire Country

oth parties are exacerbating the city/country split. How different are their interests?

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/20/2023

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California’s Covid Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings

California’s Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.

Turkey’s Opposition Leads in the Polls. Would They Move the Country Closer to the West?

The Turkish opposition’s “memorandum of understanding on common policies” reveals which way they’re likely to steer the country should they win May’s election.

The Iraq War 20 Years On: End of the US’s Post-9/11 Neoconservative Dream

The 2003 Iraq war led to huge numbers of civilian deaths, and continuing insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2023

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Medicare Plan Commissions May Steer Beneficiaries to Wrong Coverage

More Medicare “buyer beware” alerts.

The Central Bank of Nigeria Just Paused Its Demonetisation Program After Visiting Untold Damage on Nigeria’s Economy

Three months after the central bank launched demonetisation, economic conditions in Nigeria continue to deteriorate. Now, one of the country’s leading media organizations is calling for the arrest and prosecution of CBN’s governor.