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[l] at 7/26/24 12:00pm
~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; who engineered the bait and switch?; Kamala and Lina Khan; abolish your lawn ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

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[l] at 7/26/24 8:49am
Influential studies from the VA St. Louis take a broad view of long Covid. Not every expert agrees with the approach.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method]

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[l] at 7/26/24 7:45am
The US economy looks a bit perky. Party on! But will the Fed continue to apply the interest rate brakes?

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Guest Post, Investment outlook]

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[l] at 7/26/24 4:58am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 7/26/24 4:45am
The newly published files contain "countless explosive details that were intended to be kept secret from the public."

[Category: Guest Post]

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[l] at 7/26/24 4:44am
Israel 's economy is buckling due to its campaign against Palestinians. But despite what may be irreparable damage, it is not turning back.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Middle East, Politics]

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[l] at 7/26/24 1:04am
Yes, Virginia, AI, like older forms of automated trading, has a nasty propensity to cause crises.

[Category: Derivatives, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment management, Investment outlook, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Technology and innovation]

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[l] at 7/25/24 12:00pm
~ Today's Water Cooler: politics, syndemics; Biden's post-defenestration speech; Litmus tests for Kamala (Palestine, anti-trust); trad wives; employee ownership ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

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[l] at 7/25/24 8:17am
Suicide is the leading cause of death for active duty and recently soldiers. The most likely contributor is not what you might suspect.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Risk and risk management]

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[l] at 7/25/24 4:58am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

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[l] at 7/25/24 4:46am
The US Congress stands shoulder to shoulder with war criminal Netanyahu, even with more dissent than ever.

[Category: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Legal, Middle East, Politics, Social values]

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[l] at 7/25/24 4:18am
The projected failure to meet insufficiently ambitious climate change goals like net zero should come as no surprise.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators]

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[l] at 7/25/24 4:09am
The position of both poor nations and the poorest income groups globally has been deteriorating.

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

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[l] at 7/24/24 12:00pm
~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; impeachment articles against Harris (frivolous); how Harris grabbed Biden's war chest; only Google can search Reddit; the wheel of emotions. ~

[Category: Water Cooler]

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[l] at 7/24/24 8:07am
Oopsie! US semiconductor protectionism looks to have reduced the size of the pool of needed workers and experts.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation]

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[l] at 7/24/24 4:58am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

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[l] at 7/24/24 4:30am
A recent report from Pitchbook commits data crimes in attempting to depict private equity management of healthcare companies as benign.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Private equity, Regulations and regulators]

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[l] at 7/24/24 4:29am
The FTC targets surveillance pricing, which is privacy-risking data harvesting used to charge higher prices.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class]

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[l] at 7/24/24 4:00am
Will Euro defense bonds be the answer? 

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, Russia, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class]

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[l] at 7/23/24 12:00pm
~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; (1) Pelosi and the Twenty Fifth Amendment; establishment voices at the Atlantic; Boeing cluster continues ~

[Category: Water Cooler]

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[l] at 7/23/24 8:22am
Communities ravaged by neoliberal capitalism want real change. Candidates like Biden make Trump look more able to deliver it.

[Category: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class]

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