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This was posted a few months back but I just saw it & think it is worth sharing. I don't think that there is much to argue about here. I'm not even sure that there is much to be done other than keep a good hold on your britches
by dlsamson
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 05:07 AM PST
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Here is the start of the Britannica.com entry on neoliberalism neoliberalism, ideology and policy model that emphasizes the value of free market competition. Although there is considerable debate as to the defining features of neoliberal thought and...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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Our economics book for today is Globalization and Its DIscontents , by Joseph Stiglitz. In it he excoriates the “ Washington Consensus ” of a certain time period—the nearly universal ...
by Mokurai
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on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Remember Ross Perot? He ran for president as a third-party candidate in 1992. He won almost 19% of the national popular vote, taking most of his votes away from Bush the Elder, the late George Herbert Walker Bush. As a result, Bill Clinton, a...
by dratler
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 11:12 AM PDT
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The US and China are engaged in a chip war, with both sides trying to gain an advantage in the development and use of cutting-edge technology. The US has focused on restricting China's access to advanced chips and the equipment used to make them. This...
by TobiasMook
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on Sat Jul 22, 2023 at 07:08 AM PDT
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Terri Rupar
Political Editor, Originally published by The 19th
What do you want to know about politics? We want to hear from you, our readers, about what we should be reporting and how we can serve ...
by The19th
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Remember our old friend Globalization? To paraphrase a bit from The NY Times: By building international supply chains and shipping manufacturing jobs to where labor was cheap and regulations not an issue, supposedly the whole world would be tied...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Jun 19, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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Via gCaptain , a report from Reuters by Karl Plume:
Mississippi River Barge Backlog Swells as Water Levels Shrink
CHICAGO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of ...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Oct 05, 2022 at 08:40 AM PDT
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The urge to embrace glittering abstractions is boundless. In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx saw how ruthlessly capitalism exploited and oppressed workers. So he proposed a simple reversal of fortune: put workers on top. Forget about unions and...
by dratler
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on Sun May 01, 2022 at 05:34 PM PDT
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“If you want to do critical analysis of contemporary capitalism, stick with the trouble, stay inside the machine. Follow the people who are operating the machine and you’ll be amazed what they’ll tell you. Absolutely staggering what they will say out...
by Trenz Pruca
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on Fri Apr 15, 2022 at 08:37 PM PDT
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For over half a decade, the Western world has grappled with the discontents of modern, globalized civilization. The notions of “free trade” and “maximizing productive efficiency” had led the West to sell its jobs and its factories to low-wage nations...
by dratler
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on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 02:10 PM PST
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We desperately need a reset, I’ll explain. Globalization: It is basically the wild west out there. This enables owners/investors/corporations to maximize profits. This also permits money laundering/wage gauging/tax evasion for those that can afford it....
by LaFeminista
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on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 08:08 AM PST
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UPDATE I'm not usually impressed by Friedman but he may have a point or two about Ukraine and Russia We Have Never Been Here Before is Tom Friedman’s take on the significance of Putin’s land grab in the context of a Flat World: The seven most dangerous words in journalism are: “The world will never be the same.” In over four decades of reporting, I...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Feb 25, 2022 at 11:57 PM PST
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This is kind of a sea story, I guess. In 1984 I’d been working out of Fall River, Mass on a red crab vessel, Taurus, ten day trips to the edge of the continental shelf ranging from Virginia to Maine, deep water, catching red crab at 600 fathoms on...
by boomheist
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on Sun Oct 17, 2021 at 02:32 PM PDT
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I sometimes take a while for things to register, plus things keep changing. I "know them subtly" because of much evidence and then something hits me, and I realize another dimension. So was it with me yesterday when another arena of independence hit me...
by leftwisdom
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on Mon Jul 05, 2021 at 10:53 AM PDT
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Somewhere along the way the world economy has taken on a structure that proves to have some serious vulnerabilities. One ship sideways in a major chokepoint had global consequences. The New York Times has some details: ...Two weeks could strand as...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Mar 30, 2021 at 06:47 AM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. With the...
by dratler
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I didn't think I could still be outraged anymore by anything from the right. I was wrong. Today there was this, from Steve Bannon. He apparently has a talk show, funded by renegade Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. As part of the news on Bannon's arrest...
by Th0rn
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on Thu Aug 20, 2020 at 06:18 PM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. Pundits from both right and...
by dratler
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on Sun May 17, 2020 at 09:47 PM PDT
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: I hope everyone is holding up under these very trying circumstances, the pandemic and judging from this morning’s market collapses (Monday, March 16, 2020) a downward slide towards recession or worse for the...
by billofrights
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