Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts
Firms that help place handpicked candidates in school leadership positions use those connections to sell other products and services.
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Links 9/18/19
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and China innovation, BIden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Yang, NC redistricting, industrial production, housing, Houston Ship Channel, fraud at J.P. Morgan, Peloton, Nucor, the Amazon, city heat and poverty, feral hogs, jazz, housing and health, Adolph Reed, passive-aggressiveness
Read more...Purdue Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Settle Some Pending Opioids Litigation: Sacklers on Hook for Billions?
Purdue Pharma files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Will members of the Sackler family succeed in blunting accountability for the opioids crisis?
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Brexit: A Repeat of the Turmoil of 1914-1922?
What do critical chapters of British-Irish history augur for Brexit?
Read more...Drama in the Oil Markets After Attacks on Saudi Production. But This Isn’t 2007 Anymore
How the shale boom made the US less vulnerable to oil supply shocks.
Read more...Pop-Up NYC Meetup (with Michael Hudson and Jerri-Lynn) – 24th September
Pop-up meetup in Manhattan with Michael Hudson and Jerri-Lynn, 24th September 2019.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Finally Puts a Health Care Page on Her Campaign Site, Fails to Allay Doubts
A close reading of Elizabeth Warren’s new health care “plan.”
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/16/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, undecided voters, impeachment, Kavanaugh, Democrat debates, manufacturing, Wells Fargo, Uber and cash, Peter Thiel, Softbank, robot cars, the Amazon, the Santee Delta, Jeffrey Epstein, UAW, Carpenters Union, amazing quantum algorithm
Read more...Air Ambulances Woo Rural Consumers With Memberships That May Leave Them Hanging
A patient could believe his or her emergency air transport was taken care of, only to face a rude awakening when the bill came.
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Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-One: Mike Isaac’s Book Ignores Economics and Financial Results and Gets the Uber Story Almost Entirely Wrong
Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped!, a new book on Uber, draws fundamentally false conclusions about the company.
Read more...London Meetup (with Jerri-Lynn)
London meetup, 3rd October, with Clive, Richard Smith, and Jerri-Lynn.
Read more...Keynes Was Really a Conservative
“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
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