All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens
The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: 2018 enthusiasm and party affiliation, Jennifer Palmieri, third parties, durable goods, trade in goods, Jerome Powell
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Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
How student debt is killing its host.
Read more...Melting Ice Could Release Hazardous Waste from Abandoned Cold War Site
Melting Greenland ice will release chemical and some radioactive nasties from an old US Cold War base. Expect more of this sort of thing.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Kamala Harris, Schiff memo, Janus case, new homes, Dropbox, Medicare Extra, poverty, student debt, gut biome
Read more...Trump SEC Fails to Pursue Aggressive Deregulatory Agenda (Albeit from Previous Pathetic Baseline)
WSJ reports Trump SEC has failed to pursue an aggressive deregulatory agenda; legislation necessary to disable securities framework further.
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Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon: Lowering the Nuclear Threshold and Other Follies of the New Nuclear Posture Review
New Pentagon Nuclear Posture Review makes nuclear war more likely, as a logical extension of policies launched by Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Read more...Supreme Court Narrows Dodd-Frank SEC Whistleblower Protections
Supreme Court’s whistleblower protections decision may lead employees to call the SEC rather than risk an internal corporate complaint.
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Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Read more...The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...Inside the Trump Admin’s Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret
The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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