Consumer Contracts Restatement Delayed: Consumers Win…For Now
Following pushback from Elizabeth Warren, state attorneys general, and both consumer advocates and business groups, consumer contracts restatement delayed – for now.
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Links 5/31/19
Glyphosate Use Surges in Midwest, Lawsuits Mount: What Will the Supremes Say?
Glyposphate use increases throughout the Midwest, and Bayer loses its third Roundup case. The company appears confident that higher US courts will reverse pro-plaintiff verdicts.
Read more...AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows 2/3 of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now Lobbyists
AOC outs an unlikely ally after tweet calling for a lifetime ban on former members of Congress becoming lobbyists: an attempt to stop the revolving door between “public service” and personal profit.
Read more...Trump Admin’s Latest Rail Safety Rollback Sets up Industry to Make Its Own Rules
Trump administration continues to follow the self-regulation gospel – this time in the area of rail safety. This case study in corporate capture of American regulation is yet another area where the accidents are just waiting to happen.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/30/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and his hands, Sanders and the means of production, barcode voting in NY, Kelton’s website and book, labor unions and single payer, GoT revised, robot surgery, robots and rational assent
Read more...Lawmakers Push To Stop Surprise ER Billing
The legislative war to end balance billing moves forward in California.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty: Will the “Train Wreck” Uber/Lyft IPOs Finally Change the Public Narrative About Ridesharing?
A post-mortem of the Uber and Lyft IPOs.
Read more...Does Iran’s Economic Fate Depend on a Lifeline From China?
How China is likely to view defying US sanctions on Iran.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/29/2019
Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Deblasio, O’Rourke, Trump, Warren, Democrat debates, Mueller, DSA, manufacturing, “The end of mobile,” Fed defenestration, biofuels, patriarchy, more 70’s dinner, commas
Read more...Why Martin Wolf Is Wrong on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
A shame that someone like Martin Wolf does get the core idea of MMT but still really can’t or won’t accept its implications.
Read more...Links 5/29/19
UBI Without Quality Public Services Is a Neoliberal’s Paradise
Why should governments give cash-handouts before providing free, quality public services to all?
Read more...What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out
Possible American and EU responses to multipolar politics.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, Warren, SALT deductions, consumer confidence, manufacturing, housing, copper, Facebook ignores Canadian subpoena, Facebook currency?, Google, Big OIl lobbying, overfishing, methane to CO2 conversion, Mount Everest, upward mobility, Tolkien, conscience, 70s dinner party
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