Brace Yourselves: The US Is Setting Up a Ghastly “Natural Experiment”
The US may be about to be exceptional…in not a good way.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/30/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 chart, new national poll, Biden, Cuomo, Sanders, a reconfigured election season, manufacturing, warehouses and private equity, digital grocery shopping, Covidien, Arctic ozone hole, California #COVID19 efforts, “Tiger King,” Yale to New Haven: “Drop Dead,” tilde sites
Read more...Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End: How My Dad Predicted the Decline of America
This should be a time for a genuinely new approach, one fit for a world of rising disruption and disaster, one that would define a new, more democratic, less bellicose America.
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Radical Imagination: Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works
Michael Hudson rings the changes on some of his favorite themes: the logic of ancient debt jubilees. and the role of finance in contemporary rent extraction.
Read more...Tax Justice and Modern Monetary Theory – A Guide
Does Modern Monetary Theory take tax justice for granted?
Read more...The CARES Act: Stimulus and Unemployment Checks
Who gets a check? How much will the check be? How long will the check take to arrive? When will the checks stop?
Read more...Links 3/29/2020
Four Ways You Can Take Caring Action Around Coronavirus – Even if You’re Overwhelmed
Some coronavirus coping and action strategies.
Read more...The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Washington Cronies
Why you should hate the coronavirus “stimulus” bill.
Read more...COVID-19 and the Working Class in the United States
Whither the working class after the Sanders campaign?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/27/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
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2020 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler
Read more...Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Coronavirus and Food Security
UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Read more...Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy: Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
Why preserving (big) corporate profits will not bail out the economy.
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