2:00PM Water Cooler 6/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Partially open thread (more to come).
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Cheat Sheet for Tonight and Tomorrow’s Democrat Presidential Debates
Debate terrain, the role of the press, candidate form in previous debates, and the role of the press
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Health Care Price Transparency: Fool’s Gold, or Real Money in Your Pocket?
A former insider explains why more transparnecy won’t solve bad health care pricing practices.
Read more...The Individual Costs of Occupational Decline
Quelle surprise! Occupational decline, aka “The robots ate my career,” lowers lifetime earnings, particulalry for low-wage workers.
Read more...Book Review: John Patrick Leary’s “Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism”
One more book to read!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/25/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, DNC and debates, knitters, Google donations, DSA dog caucus, manufacturing, Toys “R” Us, Amazon, Comcast ripoff, Green New Deal, permafrost, forests, weed, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Zork, epic trolling
Read more...“Convenience” for Whom?
Lambert goes to the convenience store and buys coffee.
Read more...Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump Is Deepening the ‘Economic War’ Against Iran
Lawernce Wilkerson offers another dose of his pithy commentary on US policy versus Iran.
Read more...Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?
As they so often do, by promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution.
Read more...Why Public Schools’ Best Days Could Be Ahead of Us
Some urban public schools, like the ones in St. Louis, are about to regain substantial local control after budget crises made them wards of the state (government). Will these cities be able to take advantage of this opportunity?
Read more...AI, Drones, Empathy, Alienation, and the Gig Economy
Why operating drones for the military and moderating content for Facebook are both really bad gigs.
Read more...Book Review: Stephanie Jones-Rogers’ “They Were Her Property”
This important scholarly work paints a vivid portrait of 19th century America’s most significant and devastating system of economic exchange.
Read more...Links 6/24/19
Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors
“Excluding capital, the big eight basin producers have destroyed on average 80 percent of the value of their companies since the beginning of the shale revolution,”
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