The Explicable Mystery of the National Debt
Why US Treasury bond issuance and Federal deficits are functionally not debt at all.
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Mexico’s Next President Will Pour Billions Into Oil
AMLO’s plan seems to be injecting public money into the energy sector alongside what private industry is already trying to do.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and Obama, more Facebook panic, employment, doctors and “moral injury,” political data projects, temporarily open thread
Read more...Links 8/1/18
How the Dominant Business Paradigm Turns Nice People into Psychopaths
Most of us are not conscienceless psychopaths but when we make investing decisions we often act as if we are.
Read more...What Hope for the Millennial Generation in Politics?
How do millennial voters differ from those of other age cohorts?
Read more...Bill Black: Mankiw Whiffs on “Learning the Right Lessons from the Financial Crisis”
Bill Black debunks a book that tries to relitigate the crisis by denying that Lehman was insolvent.
Read more...Misperceptions About Immigration and Support for Redistribution
A large scale survey in six countries found that respondents typically had inaccurate ideas about the level of immigration, but thinking about migrants made them less supportive of redistribution policies.
Read more...Links 7/31/18
New York Evicts Internet Provider For High-Speed Failure
A rare case of a US regulator getting tough with an Internet miscreant, in this case, Spectrum.
Read more...Missed Visits, Uncontrolled Pain And Fraud: Report Says Hospices Lacks Oversight
Hospices, which were intended to offer a dignified and humane alternative to costly and often painful and distressing end of life “interventions,” sadly often offer substandard care.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, TTiP, Eric Holder 2020, 2016 post mortem, brutalism, “Trump Anxiety Disorder”, housing, manufacturing, Tesla teardowns, pipelines, Harvard admissions, processed cheese
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Debunking the Putin Panic with Stephen F. Cohen
Professor Stephen F. Cohen stresses that while there is much to criticize Putin for, many US political and media claims about him are false and reckless,
Read more...Ocean Wilderness Vanishing
First major study devoted to mapping marine wilderness issued last week documents that most of the world’s oceans have been damaged by human activity, including pollution and fishing.
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