Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
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Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/13/2020
~ Covid charts ~ Democrats in disarray, CIA Democrats ~ Biden’s defense team is defense contractors ~ Ron Klain ~ The “Latinx” vote ~ Alabama’s Tuberville, Kentucky’s Rogers ~ Horrid Apple OS rollout ~ Is America in decline? ~ Gratitude
Read more...2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade
A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.
Read more...Links 11/13/2020
The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Read more...Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.
Read more...Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures
Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?
Read more...Links 11/12/2020
What Did You Miss While You Were Following the US Elections?
Since the US elections weren’t the only recent event of importance, an international news smorgasbord.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/11/2020
~ 2020 pantry clear-out begins ~ Polling debacles ! ~ Can polling be fixed? ~ Election legitimacy, now and then ~ AOC on ground operations ~ Pfizer ramping? ~ Biden’s Covid plan ~ Nursing home Covid mortality and loneliness ~ Animal Crossing ~ Zamyatin’s “We” ~ Bob and Ray ~ A hole in one
Read more...Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...Links 11/11/2020
Unions Raise Worker Wellbeing
Quelle surprise! Unions look better than they used to, due to the worsening of non-union work.
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