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Sunday, May 28, 2023
Links 5/27/2023
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 120 Comments »
Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World
Michael Hudson explains how the treatment of debt winds up determing social structure.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 24 Comments »
The Move Toward a Four-Day Workweek Obscures Low Pay
Yves here. Like author Sonali Kolhatkar, your humble blogger has been skeptical of a four day, or better yet, 32 hour workweek without an increase in worker compensation. By Sonali Kolhatkar, an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that […]
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:35 am | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/26/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 83 Comments »
Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 18 Comments »
Links 5/26/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 98 Comments »
Why Are US Military Personnel Heading to Peru?
The ostensible goal of the operation is to provide “support and assistance to the Special Operations of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and National Police of Peru,” including in regions recently engulfed in violence.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 19 Comments »
More American Cities Considering Free Public Transportation
In fits and starts, the idea of free public transportation is getting more of a following in the US.
Topics: Energy markets, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Income disparity, Infrastructure, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:15 am | 28 Comments »
The Expanding Role of Medicaid in US Health Care
Medicaid is more of a heavyweight than you might have realized.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:52 am | 18 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2023
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 96 Comments »
Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
licymakers are funding techno-fixes like carbon capture, when studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
Topics: Carbon credits, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 25 Comments »
Links 5/25/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 139 Comments »
Ice Melt In the Pipeline
The IPCC has been soft-pedaling realistic, as in alarming, prospects for rapid ice melt and near-term ocean rises.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:15 am | 49 Comments »
Big Pharma Uses Fuzzy Math to Discredit Discount Drug Program
r 340B, a program granting cheaper medicines to nonprofit healthcare patients, drug industry innumeracy is only rivaled by its greed.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 1 Comment »
Subjective Well-Being During Spain’s Decline: Evidence from Crusade Bulls
Sales of Crusade Bulls, a form of indulgence that Spain preserved after they were in decline elsehwere, may shed light on other social issues
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:54 am | 6 Comments »