Pluralistic: 15 Sep 2022 California's antitrust case against Amazon


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Pluralistic: 14 Sep 2022 The Chokepoint Capitalism tour!


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Pluralistic: 13 Sep 2022 Survival of the Richest


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Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2022 Spotify is a ripoff, a Spotify exclusive


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Sound Money

The best money is social, not personal.

Several rows of old rulers and yardsticks, distorted as through a lens.

The inflation hawks have a point: inflation is genuinely destabilizing. When working people’s purchasing power declines, they rightly worry that heating their homes, putting food on the table, or commuting to work will cause them to fall into debt, and, eventually, poverty.

But where the inflation hawks go wrong is in blaming “money printing” for inflation. It’s true that when demand exceeds supply, prices go up, but the nutrition, shelter and transport are not luxury goods whose prices are spiking because we gave ordinary people more money than they deserved.

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Pluralistic: 10 Sep 2022 American healthcare did a fuckery, the White House has a plan for Big Tech big-data


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Pluralistic: 09 Sep 2022 How to die without getting rooked


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Pluralistic: 08 Sep 2022 Billionaires as policy-failure factories; In Real Life, in real life


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Pluralistic: 07 Sep 2022 We published an Audible Exclusive about the monopolistic abuses of Audible


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