Wives Listen but Husbands Don’t
There are significant gender differences in how economic information diffuses within the household.
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Twitter and the CIA (Twitter Files 8–10)
Yves here. The Twitter Files disclosures continue at an impressive clip, increasingly focusing on the close involvement of Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies in curtailing and blocking Administration/Democrat-threatening lines of thought, such as interest in the Hunter Biden laptop or hostility to vaccine mandates. These revelations are as significant as the Pentagon Papers, yet […]
Read more...Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class
How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.
Read more...Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members
One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...Monopoly Power vs Democracy – Matt Stoller
A wide-ranging discussion of some of the key mechanisms for exercising power in advaced economies, starting with monopolies.
Read more...Meet the Grinch Stealing Social Security, the Future of Gen Y And Z
ow Social Security is a victim of wage stagflation.
Read more...Unequal Education and the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’
A look at the role of educational advantage in perpetuating inequality.
Read more...Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science
How sustained funding legitimated race sciene.
Read more...The Political Economy of Effective Altruism
How the effective altruism discourages collective action….by design.
Read more...Stocks Open Eyes, See Fed Pivot Hawkish; ECB Hike into Recession, Start QT; BoE Hike into Recession; SNB Hike, Sell Foreign Currency Assets
ECB’s assets drop by €800 billion. Mexico hiked too today, way ahead of the Fed, keeps peso from falling against USD.
Read more...‘Solidarity Works!’ Adjunct Strike Ends at The New School After Deal Reached
Part-time faculty at the New School in New York City get a new deal after students occupied university center.
Read more...Death of an Elder Raises Uncomfortable Questions About Adequacy of Care
Some anecdotes on not-great care for the aged.
Read more...Confronting Gitmo
Gitmo is still with us, and likely for bad reason.
Read more...‘The Most Resilient New Yorkers’ — Oysters Get Second Life in Harbor
See shells journey from dinner plates to docks as environmentalists and restaurateurs use oysters to boost local ecology.
Read more...Book Review: An Unflinching Critique of the Eugenics Movement
In “Control,” geneticist Adam Rutherford grapples with the dark history of eugenics and now its engineered implementation.
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