2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2020
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Jamie Galbraith: How Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers Reinforce a Destructive, Debunked Mainstream Paradigm to Support Deficit Spending
To defend deficits, Furman and Summers relied on debunked theories, thus preserving destructive mainstream economic ideas.
Read more...Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
Read more...Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
Read more...Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?
Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.
Read more...Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
How Google’s abuses allow the search giant to dominate online advertising, and what can be done about it.
Read more...Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities
The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.
Read more...R.I.P The University, b. 1088, d. 2020, of Covid
Opportunistic university administrators seize the opportunity presented by Covid to gut academic freedom and turn faculty into employees
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/7/2020
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Business and Related Restrictions Appear to Curb COVID-19 Fatality Growth, But Some Do Not
An examination of particularly Covid-containment strategies in terms of cost versus effectiveness.
Read more...Privatized Regulators and Corrupt Corporations Caused Deadly Grenfell Tower Fire, Now Threaten Collapse of UK Housing Market through “Cladding Crisis”
Tne Grenfell Tower Inquiry digs up some gruesome corporate dealing, plus the UK’s property market could seize up.
Read more...Links 12/6/2020
What Is Exploitation in the Context of ‘Modern Slavery’? A Legal Proposal
The absence of clear parameters for determining what counts as exploitation allows states to misclassify victims.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth on Democrats Trying to Please Too Many Money Masters at Once
The Democrats will soon decide which campaign promises will be ignored or walked back. Sandernistas, brace yourselves.
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