2:00PM Water Cooler 5/29/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, delinquent bills, unhappy Tesla customer, bitcoin price manipulation, Kubrick, Korzhev, waffle-stacking, Rube Goldberg devices
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How Media Amnesia Has Trapped Us in a Neoliberal Groundhog Day
How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
Read more...There’s No Getting Around Iranian Sanctions
A discussion of the how Europe’s efforts to buck the US sanctions against Iran may play out.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler Memorial Day 2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Memorial Day open thread.
Read more...Capital’s Share of Income Is Way Higher than You Think
Almost half of households’ market income is received for just being wealthy: owning stuff.
Read more...Don Quijones: Which Banks Are Most Exposed to Italy’s Sovereign Debt? (Other than the Horribly Exposed Italian Banks)
“Doom loop” begins to exact its pound of flesh.
Read more...How Institutional Dysfunction Has Enabled Poor Economic Policy Thinking
How economic research practices and the role of academic journals helped create and reinforced an orthodoxy that was able to miss that the crisis was coming.
Read more...Do Fewer Settlements by Pharmaceutical Companies Mean Even Less Accountability for Their Execs?
Drug company settlements with the Feds, which never were very tough to begin with, are also becoming less frequent.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Automobile imports, “Blue Wave” already cresting?, California primaries, Teachout runs for NY AG, Our Revolution, durable goods, consumer sentiment, DNA, ’80s home robots
Read more...Eyewitness Sketches Provide ‘Stormy’ Results, Can Lead to False Convictions
On the shortcomings of eyewitness memories, and in particular, forensic sketches based them.
Read more...PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits
Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread.
Read more...Salient Economic Characteristics of the Counties that Flipped to Trump, Sorted by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and an economic message for Democrats.
Read more...Links 5/24/18
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fifteen: Uber’s Q1 Results – Reporters Show They Aren’t Up to Reading Financials
What was the real story in Uber’s first quarter results?
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