~ Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
How the 2% lives The Economist. Temping
What it’s like to stay in the world’s most expensive hotel suite, which costs $75,000 a night Business Insider
Sex workers have created the perfect method for keeping people honest online Quartz
What’s wrong with Airbnb? Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. Plenty, if you’re “lower income,” apparently
The Myth of Upward Mobility in America Alternet
Recession Unavoidable: Australia
Looking at metrics? Here are 55 questions to consider first
San Francisco’s Threat to AirBnb a Threat to the Entire Sharing Economy
Amazon wants to sell you everything, including student loans Quartz
Amazon Prime’s Newest Perk: Discounted Student Loans Fortune
about capitalism: It's a castle in the air, built on fantasy shading into fraud The Capitalist's Imagination
The airport retailers failing to pass VAT savings directly to customers
*Exclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes Reuters
US Senate Bill Would End Tax Breaks for Private Prison Companies
*Exclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes Reuters
US Senate Bill Would End Tax Breaks for Private Prison Companies
Why U.S. Companies Suddenly Love Workers Atlantic
Venezuela’s inflation is set to top 1,600% next year
‘Web of Science’ to be sold to private-equity firms Nature
THE CRAZILY MISPLACED WAR ON COPS:
Even as a sixties Vietnam War demonstrator, it struck me that the enmity against police was weirdly misplaced. When I heard the cries off “Off the pigs!” I felt more than mildly uncomfortable.
THE CRAZILY MISPLACED WAR ON COPS:
Even as a sixties Vietnam War demonstrator, it struck me that the enmity against police was weirdly misplaced. When I heard the cries off “Off the pigs!” I felt more than mildly uncomfortable.
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity The Archdruid Report
I rejected my parents’ WASP values. Now I see we need them more than ever. WaPo
Neoliberalism: Oversold? Finance & Development, June 2016, Vol. 53, No. 2 Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri
“Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion. Milton
Friedman in 1982 hailed Chile as an “economic miracle.” Nearly a decade
earlier, Chile had turned to policies that have since been widely
emulated across the globe. The neoliberal agenda—a label used more by
critics than by the architects of the policies—rests on two main planks.
The first is increased competition—achieved through deregulation and
the opening up of domestic markets, including financial markets, to
foreign competition. The second is a smaller role for the state,
achieved through privatization and limits on the ability of governments
to run fiscal deficits and accumulate debt.”Neoliberalism: Oversold? Finance & Development, June 2016, Vol. 53, No. 2 Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri
Schaeuble warns against EU 'race to bottom' over tax
Tax haven route won't work for post-Brexit UK, OECD says
EpiPen costs have soared 450 percent in the past 12 years, for no good reason. Slate
Can We Ignore the Alarm Bells the Bond Market Is Ringing? New York Times
A History of Media Control and Media Blackouts in Coups d’Etat Privacy Online News
Swift
Hires Cybersecurity Firms Following Customer BreachesClever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks by Watching Its Internal Clocks
A thirty-three year old, former high school English teacher spent a couple hours at Stonehaven Wharf, “a parking lot for fishing boats that’s frequented by tourists to the Canadian province of New Brunswick,” according to the Washington Post. He sat in his small white hatchback, reading Lewis’ Mere Christianity and a book by Tim Keller.
On his way home, he was pulled over by Canadian police, because someone had reported his behavior as suspicious. Of course, the officer quickly saw there was nothing suspicious about the Hamilton, Ontario native, and wished him well. The driver said:
I do not know the true motivations behind the individual who called the police to report my presence at the Stonehaven Wharf, but I struggle to understand why my actions of driving my vehicle to a public space, reading a book, and never once exiting my vehicle was cause for a level of suspicion which prompted this individual to call the police
USG Wants Law to Require US Companies to Disclose Data to Foreigners assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2994… /@techdirt pic.twitter.com/J9YTnhV5GK @cryptomeorg (guurst)