Thursday, August 7, 2025

Playing Trump for Peace: How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Bright Spot in a World Gone Mad

John Feffer focuses on how the US should allow the Koreans can do the real work, the historic work, the breakthrough work, of knitting the peninsula back together.

How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

Why “shareholders come first,” an ideology that became widely accepted only in the last 30 years, is a poor guide for managing companies.

Don’t Miss Our Birmingham Meetup This Wednesday, May 23

Hope you can make our Birmingham meetup this Wednesday!

Payday Lending Rule Survives…For Now

Congress has failed to use Congressional Review Act procedures to scupper the payday lending rule. Pending CFPB and court challenges may still doom the measure.

Links 5/20/18

Bill Black: Trump Admin Halts Investigation of For-Profit Colleges

Bill Black discusses Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s decision to stop investigating for-profit colleges and educational institutions for fraudulent practices.

Don’t Miss the Saturday June 2 NYC Meetup with Lambert

Be sure to catch Lambert at our June 2 meetup on one of his rare visits to NYC.

Links 5/19/18

The Populism Backlash: An Economically Driven Backlash

Quelle surprise! The rise of populism correlates strongly with increases in economic insecurity.

To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx

A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.

Announcing Tucson Meetup 2.0 for June 1

Hope those of you in the Tuscon area can join the fun at the second meetup!

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/18/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China trade, money and politics, Cuomo v. Nixon, breaking up the US, #MeToo, container Ponzi scheme (!), trucking, lithium, Wozniak, DNS, psychedelics

Social Multipliers in Crime: Measuring the Spillover Effects of Criminal Behaviour

An example of how the peer environment influences crime levels.

Links 5/18/18

California Hospital Giant Sutter Health Target of Anti-Trust Suit, Legislation for High Prices. Will It Set a National Precedent?

Will California officials succeed in curbing aggressive pricing by hospital network Sutter Health? Could these efforts set a precedent for other markets?