Crooked Bough News Round-up

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/19/2022

 

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[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Will the Inflation Reduction Act Actually Reduce Inflation? How Will the Corporate Minimum Tax work? An Economist Has Answers

 

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A look at some of the tax and tax collection changes in the Inflation Reduction Act.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Taxes]

— Links 8/19/2022

 

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[Category: Links]

— Scientific Research and the Unforeseen World: Why Basic Research is Essential

 

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How the current process of funding science discourages basic research and makes fundamenal breakthroughs less likely.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Technology and innovation]

— Latin America Is Back on the Grand Chessboard, As Race for Resources and Strategic Influence Intensifies in New Cold War

 

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Latin America is once again in the cross-hairs of the world's great (but in some cases, declining) powers as the new Cold War heats up.

[Category: Guest Post, Latin America]

— 10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial

 

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Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?

[Category: Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/18/2022

 

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[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Economists Fear Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Bent on ‘Unleashing Mass Unemployment’

 

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The Fed confirms its true colors of being in the business of disciplining labor, whether it makes sense of not.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science]

— Links 8/18/2022

 

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[Category: Links]

— Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign

 

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Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.

[Category: Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method]

— A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions

 

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More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators]

— Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?

 

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Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2022

 

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[Category: Water Cooler]

— Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows

 

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How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators]

— Links 8/17/2022

 

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[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— Germany to Keep Three Nuclear Plants Going Past Old Shut-Down Date to Alleviate Energy Crunch

 

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Germany looks a wee bit desperate as it suddendly moves to keep three nuclear reactors in producion that were set for shutdown

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Russia]

— Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills

 

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Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance

[Category: Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Private equity, Regulations and regulators]

— Does Nature Have Rights? Victorian Polymath John Ruskin Thought So

 

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Jeffrey Spear discusses how the insights of John Ruskin can help create a new paradigm for protecting the planet.

[Category: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Permaculture, Social policy, Social values, The dismal science] [Link to media]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2022

 

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~ Today's Water Cooler ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Is Cold, Hard Cash Making a Comeback?

 

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While cash use has been declining in many places for years, the trend may have reached its apogee. In some countries, including the UK and Spain, it even appears to be making a fragile comeback.

[Category: Guest Post]

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