Summers and the Road to Damascus
Why pushing on a string has never worked: monetary policy has never been robustly effective in promoting economic recovery or growth.
Read more...Category Archives: Politics
UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder
Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.
Read more...Brexit: Thar She Blows
Does Parliament’s revolt agaist Boris Johnson on Brexit amount to progress?
Read more...R.I.P. Immanuel Wallerstein, Sociologist and “World Systems” Theorist
Immanuel Wallerstein on China, Brazil, racism, and the future.
Read more...Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
Nearly 8% of Americans 60 and older were “food insecure” in 2017.
Read more...Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil
While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.
Read more...AOC Calls Out Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill
AOC: Former government officials “should not become corporate lobbyists, in letter or spirit.”
Read more...Bill Black: Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt?
Bill Black presents evidence the system is corrupt and rigged against ordinary people – a sentiment with which a new poll shows many agree.
Read more...Clever Tactics “Add Oil” to Hong Kong Protests (and not “Hidden Hands”)
A look at protest tactics in Hong Kong: Umbrellas, Lennon Walls, laser pointers, human chains… And maybe catapults?
Read more...Reminder: DNC Lawyers to Court, “We Do Not Owe Voters an ‘Impartial’ or ‘Evenhanded’ Primary Election”
The DNC is a club and if you are reading this post, you are probably not in it.
Read more...Brexit: Focusing the Mind
What does Johnson’s Brexit gambit portend?
Read more...Judge Issues $572 Million Verdict Against J & J in Oklahoma Opioids Trial: Settlements to Follow?
Judge issues $572 million verdict in J&J opioids trial. Some settlements of multiple pending lawsuits will likely follow.
Read more...Trump Transition: Emoluments Clause Ain’t Kryptonite
The emoluments clause isn’t some form of anti-Trump kryptonite. Eyes on the 2020 prize please.
Read more...Robocalls: Your Number, Please
The players change, but the game remains the same: telephone companies agree to empty agreement intended to combat robocalls.
Read more...Brexit: Sound and Fury
Even though not much looks to have changed with Brexit, the mere running down of the clock does make a difference.
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