★★★TODAY★★★ Bangor, Maine Meetup.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Ripping up the Yellow Pages
Bye bye Yellow Pages….you will be missed.
Corporate Contractors: The High End of the Precariat (Updated)
The stressful life of downwardly mobile corporate contractors.
Will the Great Taper Bring on GFC 2.0?
If you believe asset prices are bubbly, the soon-to-start central bank taper looks likely to pop them.
Wall Street Journal Reports on SoftBank Offer for Uber….Yet No Other Press Outlet is Picking the Story Up
Why are major media outlets uncharacteristically ignoring a big SoftBank-Uber story that the Wall Street Journal broke yesterday?
Confirming a Kansas City Meetup Next Friday, September 22
Hope to see you in Kansas City!
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2017
★★★TOMORROW★★★ Bangor, Maine Meetup: There will be a Bangor NC Meetup on Friday, September 15, 6:00pm, at Giacomo’s with me, Lambert.
Who Is Behind FDA-Weakening Bill Based on False Premise That It Restricts Access to Experimental Drugs for the Terminally Ill?
A look at some of the forces out to undermine the FDA.
Brexit Talks Stall, Making Hard Brexit Even More Likely
The Brexit talks went from bad to worse in August.
Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us
Puerto Rico illustrates why implementing austerity policies in weak economies backfires.
Disasters and Price Gouging
The rational case against profiteering during disasters.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and solar, the PUMAs, Stephen King, the Juggalos, today’s Dems vs the 70s GOP, personal income, myths of recovery
Is “Islamic Finance” Islamic?
On the origins, doctrinal propriety, and political significance of Islamic finance.
