Student Loans: Teacher Horror Story a Reminder of Failure to Fix Broken Servicing Model
Democrats fiddle as lousy servicing of student loans further harm borrowers.
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Corruption Uncertainty and Corporate Practices
evidence suggests that while foreign-controlled firms are unaffected by the corruption uncertainty factor, domestic firms decrease investments significantly when uncertainty about corruption practices increases.
Read more...In Praise of Public Libraries
Why libraries are popular today, and how they have helped me (with two Internet incidents)
Read more...If You Look Behind Neoliberal Economists, You’ll Discover the Rich: How Economic Theories Serve Big Business
The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business.
Read more...Catalonia and Spain Enter Dangerous Uncharted Territory
Some initial reactions to Catalonia’s declaration of independence and Madrid’s initiation of direct rule.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism
A bit of clarification regarding the word “neoliberalism,” now that it is finally being used in mainstream stories.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Phillips Curve
The Phillips Curve is broken and is used by policy-makers to hurt workers. Can it be fixed?
Read more...EU Borders: Walking Backwards from Northern Ireland to Cyprus
The UK still has no realistic answer to the problem that the Northern Ireland border poses to Brexit.
Read more...UK Leaders Starting to Crack as Brexit Realities Finally Sink In
Brexit bravaura is scarce in evidence in Whitehall.
Read more...What is the Matter With the Iowa ACA?
How a scheme to undermine the ACA hit Iowa particularly hard.
Read more...Ilargi: Is Capitalism Dead or Merely Dying?
None other than New Zealand’s prime minister has issued a blistering critique of capitalism. Can it be saved from itself?
Read more...Remind Me Why We Have Troops in Niger?
The players and the scene in Niger, with a note on what to expect if (when?) we go to war.
Read more...Impossible to Compete with Unintentional Self-Parody: Trump and Opioids
On the corporate/regulatory nexus of the opioid crisis.
Read more...California Secretary of State Gives Unprecedented Qualified Certification for CalPERS Board Election; Vendor Everyone Counts Bars Public Viewing and Fails to Tabulate Paper Ballots as Required
Even the Secretary of State can’t bring himself to countenance CalPERS’ conduct in its recent board election.
Read more...Measuring Racial Segregation in Urban Consumption Using Online Activity
We use restaurant reviews posted to Yelp to study segregation of consumption along racial and ethnic lines in New York City
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