Julian Assange Just Called. To Talk About the Pandemic’s Effect on Capitalism & Politics!
Yanis Varoufakis briefs Assange on the devolution of capitailsm.
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Forty Percent of Police Families Experience Domestic Violence, Compared to 10% in the General Population
More evidence of lack of impulse control on behalf of a meaningful number of police officers.
Read more...Private Equity Clearly Inferior to Public Equity: Delivers Similar Returns With Lower Liquidity
More evidence that private equity underperforms on a risk-adjusted basis.
Read more...Dicamba Drift: Trump EPA Defies 9th Circuit Ruling
EPA issues cancellation order to attempt to overrrule Ninth Circuit dicamba opinion; plaintiffs’ lawyers file emergency motion.
Read more...The Cost of Staying Open: Voluntary Social Distancing and Lockdowns in the US
Yves here. As various analyses have shown, in many places, governments implemented lockdowns after citizens had started restricting their activities to avoid contracting Covid-19. It’s useful to see economists address the question of what the cost of doing nothing or very little would have been. By Adam Brzezinski, DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics, University of […]
Read more...Police State Watch: Amnesty Targets Tear Gas
Amnesty International has yesterday launched a resource on global misuse of tear gas, in the US and elsewhere:
Read more...Food Security: UN Warns People Are Vulnerable to Shortages as the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues
United Nations warns about food security, particularly for the world’s poorest, as the COVID-19 recession overwhelms the globe.
Read more...Trump Administration Hunting Rule Change: Making it Easier to Execute Alaska’s Bears in National Parks
Trump adminstration makes some rule changes that make it easier to execute bears on national land. Is this practice fair and what is hunting anyway?
Read more...Yesterday’s Georgia Primary Voting Debacle: A Preview of November’s General Election?
How Georgia’s voting system enables voter suppression and election theft.
Read more...There’s a Crisis in U.S. Capitalism
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism’s entire history.
Read more...The European Union Still Hasn’t Considered an Economic Proposal That Can Save It
The European Union has not reached a “Hamiltonian moment.” Its plans are too little, too late, hamstrung by institutional barriers to economic recovery.
Read more...New York Makes Use of Chokeholds a Felony Charge
New York makes use of chokehold a felony charge, nearly 6 years after Eric Garner died. Perhaps cops may think twice going forward.
Read more...Pushed by National Uprising, Democratic Lawmakers Unveil Legislation to Overhaul Policing
Democrats introduce comprehensive policing reform legislation , but without Republican support, the best possible scenario is some repetition of the stimulus mess.
Read more...The Day Is Dawning On a Four-Day Work Week
The four-day work week could be another wild idea that makes it through the pandemic’s open policy window.
Read more...Why I Am Still Worried About the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Balloting Process
Voting in a pandemic
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