2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020
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The Scarring Effect of COVID-19: Youth Unemployment in Europe
Youth unemployment spiked in the EU after the financial crisis. Covid is set to do even more damage.
Read more...Obama’s Promised Land: Come for the Droning, Stay for the Erasures
Cracking open Obama third autobiography
Read more...Links 11/29/2020
Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
Read more...Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation
How did Martin Luther’s message spread so quickly?
Read more...The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
Western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.
Read more...Links 11/26/2020
Nathan Tankus: What the Hell is Going On With CARES Act “Funds”?
Trying to make sense of CARES Act gimmickry.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/25/2020
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Read more...Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Cheaper than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Doesn’t Require Supercold Temperature
Some promising news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Read more...What Would a State-Owned Amazon Look Like? Ask Argentina
Amazon hasn’t done well in Latin America. Now Argentina will challenge private platforms to benefit workers, consumers and sellers.
Read more...Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
Read more...To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
More discussion of an analysis that concluded that the only way to “fix the economy” was to tackle Covid…and not hope for a vaccine bailout
Read more...Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Trump kicks Yemen.
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