The Return of la Marine
Today, the divide from which Marine Le Pen profits has reached alarming proportions, most recently with the eruption of the revolt of the gilets jaunes.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 4/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders on open borders, Sanders and the Latinx vote, Warren, DSA, Stacey Abrams, copper, robot cars, Google and AI ethics, Amazon and writers, Boeing 737 orders, succulent plants, soil, slow journalism, identity politics, Tolkien, Japanese manhole covers
Read more...Right to Repair Initiatives Gain Support in US
Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment.
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Climate Research Must Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future
Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.
Read more...Bill Black: Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad”
Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.
Read more...Plastic Watch: 2.5 Trillion Dollar Annual Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution
New study finds ocean plastic pollution costs $2.5 trillion dollars annually – and that estimate fails to account for direct and indirect impacts on human health, or the fisheries, transport, and tourism industries.
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Has Privatization Benefitted the Public?
To ensure public acceptability, some benefits accrue to many in the early stages of privatization in order to minimize public resistance. However, in the longer term, privatization tends to enrich a few but typically fails to deliver on its ostensible aims.
Read more...3 Questions That ‘Created Havoc’ in Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education
Betty DeVos has trouble answering questions on charter school fraud. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False, It’s Bad for You
Meritocracy is a dubious ideology, save for supporting the status quo.
Read more...The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson: A New “Reality Economics” Curriculum Is Needed (Part 4)
How mainstream economics ignores the lessons from antiquity on the destructiveness of oligachies, and how early industrialists and business schools promoted anti-rentier, socialit policies.
Read more...The Biggest Problem in the War on Cash
Banks and retailers are running into strong political opposition to restricting the use of cash.
Read more...Put Bernie Sanders’ Face on Those Joe Biden Photos, Then Imagine What Party Leaders Would Be Saying
Another cut on #MeToo’s hypocisy with respect to Biden.
Read more...The Media Endlessly Talks About Interest Rates—Are They Even an Effective Economic Tool at This Point?
Interest rates are a poor substitute for fiscal spending and as we’ve seen, over-reliance on monetary policy produces speculative booms and busts. More and more people recognize this formula isn’t working, but what will it take to change course?
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