Who is hunting down the brick and mortar retailers and snuffing them. And, the killing fields are growing, from 2014-2016, 12,000 stores closed. Detectives estimates that from now to 2019 [ … ]
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The Good Doctor
Theodore Dalrymple writes… Not many people, I imagine, still read Dr. Johnson for pleasure or instruction, though he was once the favorite reading of the educated in the English-speaking world [ … ]
No BS Review. Wonder Woman
There is something about popcorn, soda and Mom. We used to love going to the movies together. There were months that we saw every major release. James Bond, Mel Brooks, [ … ]
Interest rate humility
Dan Thornton has an interesting essay, “The Limits of Monetary Policy: Why Interest Rates Don’t Matter.’’ Just why do we think that the Fed raising and lowering interest rates has [ … ]
Opinion Polls. Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
Are opinion polls the 11th plague? What we’ve done with democracy is to assume it’s a measurement of public opinion. When I was young there was quite an argument as [ … ]
AI, a robot tax & Universal Basic Income. The explainer
Ah, the companies that care about me, and indeed, humanity, and indeeder, improving shareholder return. What a bettr* world it would be, if they had it their way, which they [ … ]
Amazon buying Whole Foods? United Food Workers Union joins the #resistance
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has joined the #resistance against Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods. “No employment decreases are arranged because of the arrangement,” a delegate said [ … ]
Economic War Crimes: Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia-Herzegovina
Text of Michel Chossudovsky’s 1996 article (updated in 2002) published as a chapter in the The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003 Click image [ … ]
A no BS review of Amazon bookstore
I went to the Amazon Bookstore today on an errand to audit its well-being. I am wary of any store that has a greeter. I think they said ‘can I help [ … ]
Debt and Magical Thinking
Humanity appears to default to magical thinking when faced with untenable situations that demand systemic change. “Earth’s economy glorifies waste. Its economists rejoice when a product is disposed as [ … ]










