The Government provides yet more evidence that it is utterly unprepared for Brexit.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Wolf Richter: The Big Amazon Subsidy is Doomed
Amazon is losing more and more ground to states out to collect sales taxes.
Catalonia’s Drive for Independence and the Emergence of Global Cities
Is competition between Barcelona and Madrid the real driver of Catalonia’s independence movement?
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, TPP, tax reform knackered?, Zuckerberg, privilege, night markets, sauce, ICOs, Pence, marriage, the medieval gait
Nationwide, Progressive Candidates Are Leading and Winning
They’re not all that radical, just different, with an ear for their constituents and the backing of Our Revolution.
Naked Capitalism: Skewering Three Trumpitudes, Promoting Critical Thinking, and Rejecting Conventional Wisdom
Help us continue to chart our independent course through hazardous waters, skewering Trumpitudes, sloppy thinking, and other fallacies.
Brexit Becomes More Unhinged as Tory Cage Match Intensifies While May Tries (Again) to Blame EU
The latest Brexit snow job reflects the fact that the Tories are a dead party walking.
CFPB Issues Payday Lending Rule: Will it Hold, as the Empire Will Strike Back
How big a victory is the CFPB’s new payday lending rule for consumers of financial services? And will it hold– as the industry fights back.
Andrew Bacevich: America’s Permanent Wars as Mere Background Noise
How the US media barely deigns to take notice of our neverending wars.
Trump Adminstration Doubles Down on Efforts to Crapify the Entire Health Care System (Unless You’re Rich, of Course)
Sabotaging ObamaCare, gutting Medicaid with “tax reform”, eliminating essential benefits with “association plans”
Calling Readers! Possible Meetups Soon: Boston, NYC, Philadelphia (and Atlanta)
Looking to set dates and venues for potential meetups!
Bismarck’s Health insurance And Its Impact on Mortality
The model for today’s health insurance systems was Otto von Bismarck’s compulsory health insurance, introduced in the German Empire in 1884. That’s 1884.
New, 20 Donation “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
Once more, to the Tip Jar! Another fundraiser challenge from a generous contributor!
