Financial Crises as Drivers of Populism: A New Channel
Financial crises hurt the middle class, reducing their support for the status quo in favor of insurgent, aka populist, candidates.
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Shinzo Abe and the Legacy of Japanese Militarism
Shinzo Abe’s death is a reminder of how the US helped paper over WWII era crimes of the Japanese Empire.
Read more...Links 7/10/2022
How Organized Labor Leads the Fight for Safer Workplaces
Workers forming unions at Amazon and Starbucks want better wages and benefits and other labor protections union workers enjoy every day.
Read more...Links 7/9/2022
Leverage & Interconnectedness Are Blowing Up Crypto & DeFi
What’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.
Read more...Think Johnson Has Had a Bad Week? He’s Achieved What He Wanted
Johnson’s political project was to destroy what trust was left in UK politics. And he’s succeeded
Read more...Washington Doubles Down on Hyper-Hypocrisy After Accusing China of Using Debt to “Trap” Latin American Countries
Washington has intensified its Latin American charm offensive (onus on the word “offensive”) by warning of the dangers posed by China’s increasing use of “debt trap” diplomacy in the region.
Read more...Michael Hudson: From Junk Economics to a False View of History – Where Western Civilization Took a Wrong Turn
Hudson reviews how economics has misrepresented the evolution of money and land ownership and promoted oligarchy.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/7/2022
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Read more...Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.
Read more...NYC Doctors, Doulas, Activists Prep for a Massive Influx of Abortion Seekers
At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more
Read more...Welfare Can Discourage Crime More Than It Discourages Work
Who’d have thunk it? Income support, such as welfare, reduces crime.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/5/2022
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Read more...Supremes Kayo Climate Change Regulation: West Virginia v. EPA
The Supreme Court last week scuppered the ability of the EPA to implement climate change regulation under the Clean Air Act- absent further action by Congress.
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