Does Japan Do MMT?
In case you had any doubts, Japan is not following MMT economic policy prescriptions.
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Privacy Watch: US Visa Applicants Must Provide Social Media Details
The US will now require applicants for visas to share social media details, thus formalizing an existing policy of government monitoring of such traffic.
Read more...FANGMAN Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe” into Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon
The authorities have come to realize that monopolists like Google and Amazon aren’t good for the health of the economy or even (despite their tech sheen) “innovation”.
Read more...Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care
Hoo boy, trusting Alexa for health care. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war and tariffs, Booker, Buttigeig and the local cops, Festival of Sanders, centrist Democrats and “electability,” manufacturing, construction, bonds, climate and financial risk, self-checkout and crapification
Read more...Consumers Are Changing But Perhaps Not How You Think
Deloitte report reveals that millennial consumers will not change the world, and that their consumption patterns reflect the pressures that burden the middle class.
Read more...Links 6/3/19
‘Gatekeeper Mentality’ of DCCC Blacklist Adding to Divisions Within Democratic Party
Backlash against policy of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to blacklist vendors who work with anyone—including primary challengers—who run against an incumbent Democrat.
Read more...Michael Klare: US Plans to Muscle Up for “Great Power” Conflict With China
The US military wants to be able to take on China. A little late for that.
Read more...War on Cash: UK Cash Deserts
Latest news in the War on Cash: the problem of cash deserts in the UK – areas abandoned by banks, for economic reasons, and that lack ATMs. These tend to be rural areas, or areas of economic deprivation.
Read more...Links 6/2/19
Ecological Importance and Human Rights Be Damned, Trump Admin Says Fossil Fuel Pillaging in Arctic Refuge Coming Soon
Interior administration official promises to offer fossil fuel leases for sale in 2019 to allow drilling in previously pristine Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to commence.
Read more...The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: Evidence from the US Civil War
The US Civil War did not do lasting damage to the economic position of wealthy slaveholding famiies.
Read more...Why Democratic Presidential Candidates May Have to Choose Between Teacher Pay Raises and Charter Schools
Florida becomes a charter school battleground as communities fight a state law that diverts some of the proceeds from bond offererings, even ones approved for public school teacher salaries, to charter schools.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/31/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread
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