Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
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Medicare Blues
Medicare is not looking good.
Read more...Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
Read more...Judge Slams Apollo for Making Investors Pay for Partner’s Bogus Personal Expenses; Clueless SEC Missed the Abuse, Maybe Because Paul Weiss Misled Them
A federal judge blasts Apollo for making bogus charges to its investors and by implication, law firm Paul Weiss, for whitewashing the abuse.
Read more...What Is Exploitation in the Context of ‘Modern Slavery’? A Legal Proposal
The absence of clear parameters for determining what counts as exploitation allows states to misclassify victims.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth on Democrats Trying to Please Too Many Money Masters at Once
The Democrats will soon decide which campaign promises will be ignored or walked back. Sandernistas, brace yourselves.
Read more...Green Growth vs Degrowth: Are We Missing the Point?
A broad discussion of the climate change growth versus degrowth debate and how to move forward despite those differences.
Read more...Brexit: Stumbling
More Brexit posturing, but also some hardening of positions when both sides would need to give to get a deal.
Read more...Brexit: The Barnier Cliff
December 31 is a Barnier deadline too.
Read more...MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative
A political economy take on the EU.
Read more...Obama’s Promised Land: Obama Wept (Two Episodes from Campaign 2008)
Obama on the trail in 2008….
Read more...Can’t Do America: Kick the Can Approach to Public Pension Fund Crisis, Even Though Canada Cleaned Up Its Mess
Why the US is certain to ignore the Canadian roadmap out of its public pension fund mess….and it’s not just because exceptionalism.
Read more...Obama’s Promised Land: Come for the Droning, Stay for the Erasures
Cracking open Obama third autobiography
Read more...Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
Read more...Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation
How did Martin Luther’s message spread so quickly?
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