How To Compare Incomes Across Countries
Economists’ comparisons of incomes make social democracies look bad by not attributing value to government healthcare and cheap college.
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Links 12/10/2021
Inflation Continues to Soar in Latin America, Even As Central Banks Intensify Their Rate Hikes
After hiking interest rates seven times in eleven months, Brazil now faces faces the most dreaded of economic scenarios: stagflation.
Read more...Health Experts Worry CDC’s Covid Vaccination Rates Appear Inflated
Quelle suprise! The CDC’s vaccination figures are pumped up!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2021
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Read more...Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High
Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.
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How the Build Back Better Bill Would Save Workers’ Lives
Build Back Better promises to strengthen OHSA. Why is it is in such sorry shape and why has Team Dem said little about workers’ protection?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/8/2021
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How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Sixty years after Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex, the “weight of this combination” of corrupt generals and admirals, the profitable “merchants of death” whose goods they peddle, and the Senators and Representatives who blindly entrust them with trillions of dollars of the public’s money, constitute the full flowering of President Eisenhower’s greatest fears.
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Containers
How international standards enabled containers to be stacked and shipped.
Read more...Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain?
Oil companies and regulators must bolster nascent efforts to repair the damage that has already been done.
Read more...Links 12/7/2021
Why An Open, Transparent, Informed Debate About Mandatory Vaccination Is All But Impossible in the EU
There’s just too much murkiness for anyone, including MEPs, to reach anything like an informed decision on the issue.
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