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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Oleg Komlik — The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers

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Short and important. Economic Sociology and Political Economy The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers Oleg Komlik | founde...

Teodrose Fikre — Et Tu Bernie?

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Sunday political sermon. Amen. Ghion Journa Et Tu Bernie? Teodrose Fikre is the editor and founder of the Ghion Journal.  See also ...
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Tyler Durden - "An Unparalleled Economic & Political Crisis": Brexit Optimism Collapses As Ministers Fear "Historic Catastrophe"

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“I have near zero optimism because I think it is going to be very messy,” warned one UK minister, speaking to Bloomberg on condition o...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Martin Armstrong — Magnitsky Act is Back

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Apparently, when the film first appeared, there were only 46 views. After our post, it exceeded 20,000. It was then pulled, of course. Here...

Steven Pearlstein - The junk debt that tanked the economy? It's back in a big way.

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Loans to highly indebted businesses — that are packaged into securities — are up 38 percent this year. Was further deteriorating the bank...

Sputnik — 'No Matter What': US Poised to Deploy Space-Based Weapons by 2020 – Reports

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Space wars is here. That should quickly rack up trillions for the "defense" industry aka the military-industrial complex (you rem...
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Reuters — Hungarian PM sees shift to illiberal Christian democracy in 2019 European vote

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Traditionalism is on the rise and it's taking a bite out of liberalism. This wave is not unique to Hungary. In an annual speech to et...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Lee Camp — American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths

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Things to contemplate while you are at the beach this weekend. Truthdig American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths ...
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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould — The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power

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Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out ...
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Ellis Winningham — How to Draw Unique and Entertaining Comparisons to Express MMT Concepts

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People always ask me how I come up with interesting and fun analogies to teach MMT. So, I thought it would be fun to address that question....
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M. K. Bhadrakumar — Trump Has a Grand Strategy, He Wants to Do a 'Reverse Nixon' -- Partner Russia for an Alliance vs China

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Pulling a Kissinger. But coming from a country that can't keep an agreement…? And if an agreement were viable, what could go wrong? ...
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Andre Vltchek — Releasing My North Korean Documentary Film to My Readers

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Download it before it disappears. NEO Releasing My North Korean Documentary Film to My Readers Andre Vltchek
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Daniel Oberhaus — Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine

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“So yeah, we are encouraging people to break the law,” Laufer added. “If you're going to die and you're being denied the medicine t...

Max J. Zenglein — Europe needs to stand up to China’s state capitalist model

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Capitalism is feeling the heat. Wait, wasn't capitalism supposed to bury socialism in competition?  Oh, I see, China is not pl...

Jim Carey — Mexico’s Case Against NAFTA: An Economic and Environmental Wrecking Ball

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So is Mexico so eager to open talks with the U.S. on NAFTA if it was “the worst deal ever approved” by Washington? A deal that was helping ...

Martin Armstrong — Magnitsky Act & the Cover-Up of Unprecedented Corruption

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Not only Browder but other American predators preying on Russia in the Yeltsin years. Armstrong saw it up close as an investor in Browder...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Ben Wray — The magic money tree is real: Treasury confirms taxes are not needed to fund government spending

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A LETTER from the Economic Secretary of the Treasury has confirmed that the government does not need to raise money from taxation to fund g...
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John Helmer — The Helsinki Referendum For Donbass – Putin Opts For No-Win, No-Lose; Us Rejects Swap Of Donbass For Crimea

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Only for those interested in a detailed backgrounder about where things stand now from someone that understands both English and Russian ...

Popular Resistance — Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega to Telesur: ‘The Coup Was Defeated’

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Ortega says that the country has experienced extreme violence over the past several months at the hands of the “extreme right” of Nicaragua...
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Liz Alderman - Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It’s Having a Major Revival.

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It seems that the socialists do better capitalism than the conservatives do, well at least in Portugal. Businesses are now flourishing. You...

Tyler Cowen — Which happiness results are robust?

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Tyler Cowen comments on a paper, and Barkley Rosser, who is not an author of the paper but is interested in the issues, responds in the c...
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Sarah Berger - 4-day workweek is a success, New Zealand experiment finds

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There's no two ways about, humans are cooperative creatures who like to help each other. KV If productivity is plummeting in the workp...
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On the Economy — How Innovative Is China?

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A few years ago, China overtook the U.S. and other innovative countries in terms of patent applications. More recently, it also became the ...

Timothy Taylor — The Need for Generalists

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One of the many political cliches that makes me die a little bit inside is when someone claims that all we need to address a certain proble...
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Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson — Deepening our Understanding of Social Reproduction Theory

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Probably not of interest to all but worth posting for those interested in a contemporary Marxian approach. When we embarked on our project...

Duncan Green — Why is Latin America Going Backwards?

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Increasingly, however, academics and development practitioners are looking at a less visible and tangible obstacle – the capture of the Sta...
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Bill Mitchell — Build it in Britain is just sensible logic

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After my day in the sun as a poet, I am back to being an economist. I have been researching operational issues relating to how a society ca...

Philip Giraldi — Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

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The darling of the war party needs to answer some questions Update: The link to the film exposing Browder provided in this article has bee...
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Andrei Nekrasov - Russian Film Director censored by EU: Western media are misrepresenting Magnitsky - Browder case

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The Andrei Nekrasov film that Tom posted here recently has been taken down, but someone has been brave enough to put it on YouTube, so just ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Zero Hedge — First Assassination Markets Appear On Prediction Platform Augur

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Bizarre. Miles over the top. Things are spinning out of control. Zero Hedge First Assassination Markets Appear On Prediction Platform Augur...