Uber Loses Another $1.2 Billion, Stock Dives Again
Uber manages to bleed even more cash.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 11/4/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, impeachment transcripts, TAP butchers defense of Warren’s #MedicareForAll plan, Wasserman-Schultz, factory orders, AirBnB, wildflower median strips, feral hogs, UAW and CTU, Derek Smalls
Read more...What’s Inside That Black Box: What Regulating Data Privacy and Policing Drunk Driving Have in Common
Two recent NYT stories – on data privacy and drunk driving – highlight the dangers of unquestioned reliance on omnipotent back boxes.
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Monsanto Wins $7.7 Billion Lawsuit in Brazil – but Farmers’ Fight to Stop its ‘Amoral’ Royalty System Will Continue
Monsanto wins $7.7 billion Brazil lawsuit – thus preventing farmers from saving seeds for replanting if the seeds are harvested from Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready soybeans,.
Read more...Why Did Isaac Newton Lose His Shirt in Financial Speculation? Author Alex Pollock Explains.
Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius.
Read more...Flip Flop: UK Halts Fracking in England, Effective Immediately, Over Earthquake Fears
UK halts all fracking in England with immediate effect. On its face, a big win, but will the Tories make the moratorium permanent?
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PG&E Blackouts Spur Calls for Public Ownership
PG&E cut power to millions throughout California this month as fires blaze across the state. The move has prompted many to call to municipalize the company. Democracy Collaborative researcher Johanna Bozuwa explains.
Read more...‘Another Gift’ to Big Business as Trump Treasury Moves to Eliminate Rules Against Corporate Tax Avoidance
Another day, another Trump gift to the wealthy, this one in the form of a corporate tax break.
Read more...What Randomised Control Trials Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
A long-form discussion of the randomised approach celebrated in this year’s “Nobel” for economics.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Releases #MedicareForAll “Pay For” Plan, with “No New Taxes” on the “Middle Class”
Pluses and minuses of Warren’s “plan” to “pay for” #MedicareForAll
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Iowa primary, Biden, Trump, impeachment, ballot marking devices, employment situation, manufacturing, construction, retail, semiconductors, website “fingerprinting,” Google, board games, unionizing NBC
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California Nursing Home Residents Told To Find New Homes
A nursing home case study in profiteering.
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