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Links 10/15/18

Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – The Best Daily Paper

Naked Capitalism is the best news source….for independent thinkers.

How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’

contemporary American business and economic culture has a moral framework: neoliberalism. This framework is dependably orthogonal to the last 50,000 years of moral norms and traditions.

Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain

Bad Brexit news just got worse.

Rethinking AI Through the Politics of 1968

All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics. 

Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center Shuts Down Prison Debate Program

Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify

Links 10/14/18

Ode to the Commentariat: Why Naked Capitalism Matters

Donate to Naked Capitalism so that the commentariat can continue to educate ME and every other regular reader of this marvelous, unique site.

The Effectiveness of Large-Scale Asset Purchases

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On to the next critical goal of our fundraiser: support for maintaining the high quality of the comments section.

Links 10/13/18

Clive: Naked Capitalism – Your Ammunition in the War for Information

What can we do to change the balance of power? Information is our best weapon.

Marshall Auerback: A Full Employment Economy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.

Money, the Shape of Law, MMT, and Aesthetics

How the evolution of Western metaphysics repressed chartalist ideas that are the foundation of MMT.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Smug liberals, socialists v liberals, Sanders in South Carolina, the Chicago Way, partisan consumer confidence, import/export, lithium, graphene, Dollar General, Tesla, robot cars, that hardware hacking story, Warren Mosler, PDAs