Category Archives: Guest Post

Incumbents Have the Upper Hand in Elections – Coordination Failures Give Them a Further Advantage

Incumbents do better than they ought to due to the opposition failing to unify sufficienlty against their main target.

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/21/2023

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Nigerian Central Bank’s “Drive to Entrench” a “Cashless Economy” Is Creating a World of Pain for Nigerian Citizens

“Nigeria must go cashless. It is a global policy, checking insecurity and fighting corruption”: Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/20/2023

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Links 2/20/2023

Mark Cuban Has Been Taking On the Drug Industry. But Which One?

Billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks gets into the pharmaceutical industry.

Europe’s Second Largest Industrial Base Sinks Under the Weight of Energy Costs as Divisions Open Up in the Ruling Coalition

Italy searches for energy after cutoff from Russia.

Links 2/19/2023

Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through

Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages

Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization

Rather than settle for narrow reforms, rail workers are pushing for public ownership of the US railroad system, which is commonplace throughout much of the world.

Tech Companies Are Getting Into Neurotechnology. Should We Worry?

Consumer-facing neurotechnology could make computers more accessible — and pose a new kind of threat to data privacy.