India’s Demonetization: No Impact on Black Money Despite Huge Costs It Imposed
India’s demonetization exercise was for naught, with the RBI reporting last week a scant 1% of banned notes not converted into new currency.
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Flood Protection: The US Should Go Dutch to Avoid Building Another Houston
Houston and US more generally should embrace a Dutch model of flood protection rather than focusing flood control efforts on post hoc clean-up.
Read more...New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest
Google henchwoman Anne-Marie Slaughter has shown far too openly how Google is throwing its money and weight around in DC.
Read more...Could a Foreign Corrupt Practices Investigation Become a Serious Problem for Uber?
An FCPA case against Uber would be extremely damaging, and there are good reasons why the DoJ would be game to pursue one.
Read more...GAO Report Finds Rural Postal Service Remains Essential
More evidence that cutting back on rural postal service is a bad idea.
Read more...Will Disappointing Tax Reform Puncture the Stock Market Bubble?
Why the Trump tax reform is likely to be a damp squib.
Read more...Another Privatization Fail: 5 Things You Don’t Know About School Lunches (but Probably Should)
School lunches: yet another area where the privatization fairy has failed to perform a miracle and cut costs while raising standards.
Read more...Trump Treasury Dept Renews Modest Real Estate Anti-Money Laundering Regs
Trump’s Treasury Dept renews and modestly extends real estate money laundering reg– which fails to address the scope of dirty money issues.
Read more...Dean Baker: Social Security A Success Story- Can It Withstand Privatization Attacks?
Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil: “Algorithms Are Opinions Embedded in Code”
On the real and present dangers of rule by algorithm, or as Lambert has called it, “code as law”.
Read more...Why You Should Be Very Skeptical of Google’s and ProPublica’s “Hate Crimes” Initiative
Google and ProPublica launch a new “hate crimes’ tracker that isn’t, and may never be, ready for prime time.
Read more...How Alfred McCoy Stalked the CIA From Its Heroin Trail to the Surveillance State
Alfred McCoy’s soon-to-be-released book on the CIA is already rocking boats. This post adapted from it shows why.
Read more...Did Sanders Voters Tip the 2016 Election to Trump?
Framing and reframing new data results from the CCES survey on election 2016.
Read more...UK Trying to Renegotiate Shape of the Brexit Table, Which Will Effectively Shut Down Talks
The UK is managing to make its bad Brexit situation worse.
Read more...Book Review: The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Extracts from Grant’s Personal Memoirs, with some lessons for the present day.
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