Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Links 7/24/18

Reader Coping Strategies for Engaging With Committed Liberals

Reader survival strategies for dealing with dogmatic friends and colleagues.

America’s Subprime Economy

This so-called expansion is more and more brought to you by subprime borrowings.

Why Is CalSTRS Continuing to Out-Perform CalPERS?

Not surprisingly, CalPERS’ performance leaves much to be desired.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Realignment and legitimacy, forest fires, killer lawns, Raytheon, the Iowa Farm Board, ticks, and more later.

Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (Status Quo, with a Look at the Winners So Far)

After all the sound and fury, status quo ante

Links 7/23/18

(Mis)Adventures in Portland and a Visit to Occupy ICE

My visit last week to Portland was more exciting, in the good and bad sense, than I expected it to be.

The Missing Profits of Nations

Profit shifting is a key driver of the decline in global average statutory corporate tax rate, which has fallen by more than half

John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism

Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?

Usage Examples of “Our Intelligence Community”, with Implications

Elite language about “the intelligence community,” and what it implies

Links 7/22/18

A New Way to Think About Solving the World’s Biggest Problems

The Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) will consist of a series of multi-issue global problem-solving policy packages, each of which is to be implemented by all or sufficient nations simultaneously

Links 7/21/18

Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA

Tariffs misfire yet again.