Category Archives: Guest Post
Bill Black: Trump Admin Halts Investigation of For-Profit Colleges
Bill Black discusses Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s decision to stop investigating for-profit colleges and educational institutions for fraudulent practices.
Read more...The Populism Backlash: An Economically Driven Backlash
Quelle surprise! The rise of populism correlates strongly with increases in economic insecurity.
Read more...To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/18/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China trade, money and politics, Cuomo v. Nixon, breaking up the US, #MeToo, container Ponzi scheme (!), trucking, lithium, Wozniak, DNS, psychedelics
Read more...Social Multipliers in Crime: Measuring the Spillover Effects of Criminal Behaviour
An example of how the peer environment influences crime levels.
Read more...California Hospital Giant Sutter Health Target of Anti-Trust Suit, Legislation for High Prices. Will It Set a National Precedent?
Will California officials succeed in curbing aggressive pricing by hospital network Sutter Health? Could these efforts set a precedent for other markets?
Read more...Bitcoin Energy Use Growing Much Faster than Previously Thought
Bitcoin energy use alarmists are being proven right.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Fake News No Problem – Internet Totally Dominates Advertising in the US
TV falls behind further, suffers first advertising revenue decline since the Financial Crisis
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA and wage arbitrage, China, Biden, Sanders, PA results, flipping the House, leading indicators, manufacturing, Maersk, Uber, coyotes, class warfare, self-knowledge, new planet
Read more...Yes, Neoliberalism Is a Thing. Don’t Let Economists Tell You Otherwise
Now that people have started to discover what neoliberalism is, denialism is the rage.
Read more...IEA: High Oil Prices “Taking A Toll” On Demand
Mr. Market may not yet take issue with rising oil prices, but the real economy is starting to register the pinch.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/16/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade, Biden, House races, industrial production, housing, trucking and ELD, coal, RVs, cellphone surveillance, robots, Kissinger on AI, Twitter on trolling
Read more...Trade War: How Tensions Have Risen Between China, the EU and the US
A very useful recap of trade measures taken so far and potential impacts of various threats made by the US, China, and EU.
Read more...What Do the Jersey Elections Have to Do With Britain?
Not only is the isle of Jersey facing increasing scrutiny for its status as a notorious tax haven, especially from the UK, but populist desire for reform is surging from within as elections approach.
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