Matt Stoller writes about the challenges facing Lina Khan. The Bork doctrine is about to be challenged. Bork wrote in The Antitrust Paradox that allowing monopolies to develop could be good for consumers. I haven’t read the book, but I’ve read a few summaries …
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Who would believe that the US military would simulate a terrorist attack, just to increase government spending on defence? Only a crackpot, right? Think of the number of conspirators who would have to be in on the conspiracy, and the implausibility of the truth not …
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$EPD has some insiders buying. This stock has been widely recommended for a long time, without acquiring any kind of trend. Maybe this news, together with some positive figures, will move the needle.
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Scarily, crypto has acquired …
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The Bear Cave #91 New Activist Reports, Recent Resignations, and Tweets of the Week Edwin Dorsey Nov 14
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Men in a street of Napoli 1950s Fosco Maraini
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Working for a bank is boring. Banks just don’t understand software. They are run by people who have contempt for IT. They spend a lot of money …
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read moreDO NOT FEAR: “Yellen…said the high inflation that persisted through parts of the 1970s and 1980s occurred ‘because people thought that policy makers wouldn’t bring it to an end, and inflation expectations became embedded in the American psyche. That isn’t happening now and …
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This post on substack is about Pareto’s Law. This has nothing to do with Pareto Efficiency, the idea that equilibrium should be when any reallocation of productive resources will make at least one actor worse off. Pareto’s Law is about the fact that income and wealth …
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The Owen Patterson fiasco is unbelievable. The Conservatives have had an internal coup in which a small band of Brexit fanatics have taken control of the party. In any party that cared about electoral success, Paterson would have been thrown to the wolves, but he is a true …
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It seems to me that politicians are so focussed on winning elections that they never spare a thought about what they need to do when they finally seize the levers of power. Boris Johnson seems particularly deficient in this regard, but he is largely following on …
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