China Takes Step Against Securitization, Consumer Borrowing With Suspension of Ant IPO
With its smackdown of Ant and its billionaire founder Jack Ma, China has made clear that financiers do not call the shots.
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How Kurdistan Is Taking Advantage Of Iraq’s Oil Crisis
Iraq is in bad enough shape that the Kurds look able to score a rare win.
Read more...How Covid-19 Is Increasing Support for Social Spending
Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
Read more...Six Charts That Reveal America’s Deep Divides
A brief political economy history, in charts: the rich got richer!
Read more...2020 Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread
Trump/Pence v. Biden/Harris
Read more...Notes Toward a Definition of the Democrat Party
The Democrat Party is a rotting corpse that can’t bury itself. Why is that?
Read more...Trump or Biden, Trade Deals Still Threaten Britain’s NHS
Regardless of who wins the US presidential election, Britain will be hard pressed to protect the NHS from higher drug prices.
Read more...Affluent Authoritarianism: New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy
New research shows once again that it’s large firms and the 1%—not the “median voter”—who drive U.S. policy.
Read more...Voting Turnout: Three Simple Ways to Get Out the Vote
Three simple measures to increase our sorry rate of voter turnout, some borrowed from other countries; readers chime in with your own.
Read more...As the World Watches US Election, the Appeal of America is Diminished
Thoughtful take on how the rest of the world percevies US flaws after 4 years of Trump; even the Biden’s election is unlikely to reverse this.
Read more...One Trump Voter Explains Why Trump Will Win
An astute Trump backer argues that Trump is closer to a win that you think.
Read more...Stop Girdling the Post Office
A pre-election reminder of the importance of saving the Post Office.
Read more...Indian Pharma is Being Squeezed – and It’s Bad News for Drug Access in Developing Countries
The role of Indian pharma in ensuring access to low-cost drugs is important during the age of COVID-19, and not only for developing counries.
Read more...Michael Olenick: The Real Origins of Trump – The Foreclosure Crisis
The foreclosure crisis was a key element of Trump’s win in 2016, yet the Democrats are still in denial about its costs.
Read more...How Twitter Affected the 2016 Presidential Election
Quelle surprise! Twitter helped Clinton in 2016. So why the hysterical censorship in 2020?
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