Understanding Right and Left Populism
Experts appear to have understated the role of economic insecurity in sparking the rise of populism.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, sorghum, Clinton and Cuomo, Stacey Abrams, scamming the #Resistance, PMI Flash, new housing, architectural billings, Google, tech billionaires, model trains, Lamarckism, food trucks, “By 35….”
Read more...Beware the So-Called Mental Health “De-Stigmatization” Campaigns such as Make It OK and NAMI, for They Are Front Groups for Big Pharma
On the unsavory role of mental health advocacy groups.
Read more...Lib-Pop Politics: Italy’s New Government Is More Neoliberal Than Populist
Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/22/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily open thread.
Read more...Will TSB Ever Be Completely Fixed?
TSB’s IT meltdown has dissappeared from mainstream media headlines. But is that the end of the story?
Read more...Links 5/22/18
Wolf Richter: Hilarity in NIRP Zone: Italian 2-Year Yield Still Near 0%, as New Government Proposes Haircut for Creditors and Alternate Currency, Markets on “Knife Edge”
The ECB’s Negative Interest Rate Policy has been the funniest monetary joke ever.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Progressive Democrats Help Enshrine “Blue Lives Matter” Into Law
“Progressive” Democrats back “Blue Lives Matter,” an effort designed to undermine Black Lives Matter.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Cory Booker, 2018 primaries, Mueller investigation, non-reformist reforms, national activity, oil, Theranos, Amazon, resistance, nothingness, pedestrians
Read more...Planet or Plastic
Planet or Plastic: more than individual solutions will be necessary to solve the problem. This is not a left/right issue.
Read more...Links 5/21/18
Playing Trump for Peace: How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Bright Spot in a World Gone Mad
John Feffer focuses on how the US should allow the Koreans can do the real work, the historic work, the breakthrough work, of knitting the peninsula back together.
Read more...How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
Why “shareholders come first,” an ideology that became widely accepted only in the last 30 years, is a poor guide for managing companies.
Read more...Payday Lending Rule Survives…For Now
Congress has failed to use Congressional Review Act procedures to scupper the payday lending rule. Pending CFPB and court challenges may still doom the measure.
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