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.
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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.
Read more...How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources?
An analysis of David Sanger’s work at the New York Times in 2017 gives a sense of how much reporters crib from anonymous “official” sources.
Read more...“Cash Must Not Be Made the Scapegoat”
The ECB isn’t keen about the war on cash.
Read more...“Life in the Sweatbox,” Personal Bankruptcy, and the Narrative of Utilitarian Calculus
The false narrative that made personal bankruptcy law so hellish
Read more...Trump’s Bogus Infrastructure Plan Takes the U.S. Further Down the Road of Rentier Capitalism
The public-private partnerships Trump proposes are a sick neoliberal joke.
Read more...Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
Read more...New JAMA Study Shows that Electronic Health Records Do Not Reduce Administrative Costs
New study on the EHR debacle shows that our multiple payer system creates the complexity that prevents cost-saving and makes EHRs so hard to implement
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Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains
Larry Summers and Anna Stansbury challenge the idea that workers getting a smaller cut of the productivity gains pie is due to technology.
Read more...Law Professor Proposes Bringing Back Indentured Servitude
Indentured servitude is the new idea for how to get immigrants to come to American at less than minimum wage pay.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/20/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I started today filled with good intentions, and then got a late start. I will add more material in a bit! –lambert UPDATE 2:52PM All done! Trade “China’s got a trade problem that can’t be solved by Belt and Road” [South China Morning Post]. “That’s Belt and Road […]
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Davos: Alive or Dead?
Politicians and economists are meeting at Davos, but as times change, does neoliberalism retain its cachet?
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