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How Could Euro Nations Start A New Currency? – Warren Mosler
Very interesting. Important because this strategy is a ‘plan b” strategy, meaning it will work. Because it will work it can be used as an effective strategy to force the EU to … Continue reading How Could Euro Nations Start A New Currency? – Warren Mosler
Jacinda Ardern set to become New Zealand PM
Jacinda Ardern is set to become the next prime minister of New Zealand in a meteoric rise to power just months after taking control of the opposition Labour party in the middle of an election campaign. Ms Ardern, 37, … will become one of her country’s youngest prime ministers and the third … Continue reading Jacinda Ardern set to become New Zealand PM
Prosperity gap benefiting wealthy, deepening inequality
More than 52 million Americans live in deeply-disadvantaged, “distressed” neighborhoods. Source: Prosperity gap benefiting wealthy, deepening inequality Continue reading Prosperity gap benefiting wealthy, deepening inequality
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Opioid epidemic crisis law from ’60 minutes’ investigation could be repealed
A bill that once passed through Congress without much objection is now being called into question after an explosive “60 Minutes”–Washington Post investigation. The investigation found that members of Congress, … Continue reading Opioid epidemic crisis law from ’60 minutes’ investigation could be repealed
Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots
“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.” Once robots take over it’s how society decides that everything is distributed. It’s something humans need to … Continue reading Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots
Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?
The national debt is not what we currently owe but what we currently own Put simply, the commercial bank circuit serves private needs while the government circuit serves collective needs. The bank … Continue reading Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?
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EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’
In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels equivalent to thousands of chest X-rays, the Environmental Protection Agency said in new guidelines … Continue reading EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’
There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
A new movie sets its doomed entrepreneurs amidst 17th-century “tulipmania”—but historians of the phenomenon have their own bubble to burst. All the outlandish stories of economic ruin, of an innocent sailor thrown … Continue reading There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
Corporations Have Utterly Failed to Protect Speech
Facebook and Twitter are hurting those they should be protecting. Due to public pressure, corporations are now censoring our public discussion, blocking accounts that say something that a powerful group does not … Continue reading Corporations Have Utterly Failed to Protect Speech
School district pulls ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from reading list; ‘makes people uncomfortable,’ official says
Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum after the district received complaints that some of the book’s language “makes people uncomfortable.” Isn’t that the point behind the book? To make … Continue reading School district pulls ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from reading list; ‘makes people uncomfortable,’ official says
How the world’s greatest financial experiment enriched the rich
Western governments have printed trillions of dollars to boost their economies. While the asset-rich have reaped the benefits of QE, millennials and the poor have lost out. Interesting read. If the governments … Continue reading How the world’s greatest financial experiment enriched the rich
Why You’re Not Getting a Raise
Much of the developed world has experienced stubbornly low real wage growth since the financial crisis of 2007. Here’s why, and what can be done. Good reading. Source: Why You’re Not Getting … Continue reading Why You’re Not Getting a Raise
