Trump Looks To Nationalize 5G
Wellie, if the government owns the 5G network, you won’t have any doubt as to who has access to what you did over it.
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France, Inequality, the Yellow Vests, and the Social Elevator
Redistribution through taxes and social transfers is not sufficient to curb the inequality in opportunity, which is mostly linked to the educational system and perpetuates economic and social situations from one generation to the next.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eighteen: Lyft’s IPO Prospectus Tells Investors That It Has No Idea How Ridesharing Could Ever Be Profitable
Lyft’s prospectus doesn’t even pretend that the company might become profitable, let alone justify a $20-25 billion valuation.
Read more...Do Real Estate Markets Make Our Cities Less Livable?
Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes cities.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Democrat presidential candidate round-up, dogs, golf, and temporarily open thread.
Read more...A First Look at Pramila Jayapal’s “Medicare for All Act of 2019”, HR 1384
The state of play on the Hill, Jayapal burns the ships, Pelosi is awful, and HR1384 tries to eliminate health care for profit.
Read more...Links 3/4/19
Have We Already Passed World Peak Oil and World Peak Coal?
Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.
Read more...Corruption Fueling Choice of “Ballot Marking Devices,” not Paper Ballots, in Georgia, Pennsylvania Debacles
Penny ante corruption fuels purchases of voting machines in Georgia and Pennsylvania
Read more...Links 3/3/19
Climate Change Mobilization: To Fear, or Not to Fear?
The question is whether fear is the right emotion to play on to get people to sit up, listen, and take action.
Read more...Links 3/2/19
The Permian Is A Double-Edged Sword For Oil Majors
There are still questions about the profitability of the Chevron’s assets in West Texas.
Read more...The Debate Over Tactics In the Modern Left: Radical Opposition or Strategic Inclusive Engagement?
Revisiting a classic debate over the tactics for achieving political/societal change.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Huawei, Inslee, Booker, Pelosi on #MedicareForAll, AOC staffers, personal income, manufacturing, consumer sentiment, UPS, Tesla, algos, psychoterratic and shinrin yoku, toilet paper, unions and GND, Walmart greeters, diversity, quiet, groundwater on Mars
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