2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Realignment and legitimacy, forest fires, killer lawns, Raytheon, the Iowa Farm Board, ticks, and more later.
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Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (Status Quo, with a Look at the Winners So Far)
After all the sound and fury, status quo ante
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The Missing Profits of Nations
Profit shifting is a key driver of the decline in global average statutory corporate tax rate, which has fallen by more than half
Read more...John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism
Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?
Read more...Usage Examples of “Our Intelligence Community”, with Implications
Elite language about “the intelligence community,” and what it implies
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Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA
Tariffs misfire yet again.
Read more...Economy of Intangibles
Has the rising role of intangibles, as in intangible assets. helped cause secular stagnation?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Republican governors, lunatic politics, treason, William Gibson, scooters, Fed DSGE model, Uber, DARPA robots, Oscar Wilde
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Migrants, Pro-Globalization “Leftists,” and the Suffocating Middle Class
Economic migrants seek prosperity and are justified in doing so, yet they can also be seen as pawns in an international strategy that destroys the negotiating leverage of workers. The resulting contradictions potentially render conventional political classifications obsolete.
Read more...Tariq Ali: “No Real Choice” at the Ballot Box for the People of Pakistan
Corruption keeps growing like cancer in Pakistan. This combined with military repression and on-going terror attacks from the Islamic State, means Pakistanis will see a continuation of the status quo, says Tariq Ali in this RNN interview.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Trump’s Trade War with China Will Cause an Economic Catastrophe — Here’s a Better Solution
How to impose trade rules that will bring jobs back to the US in a much more surgical manner than a costly and potentially self-defeating trade wars.
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