Pluralistic: Bankruptcy is very, very good (17 Jun 2024)

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Bankruptcy is very, very good: "A large increase in earned income, employment, assets, real estate, secured debt, home ownership, and wealth that persists for more than 25 years after a court ruling."
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Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects the people who need it least.
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Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house: When the editorial page leaks into the news.
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When you hear "fintech," think "unlicensed bank": "…with a computer."
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Finance caused the fall of Rome: A politics of protecting contracts and property is a civilizational suicide pact.
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Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson.
"Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism.
Wells Fargo can't stop criming: The nation's third-biggest bank is a criminal enterprise.
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Podcasting "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": Monopolies are more probable than mind-control.
Set My Heart to Five: Sf satire in a Vonnegut mold.
Mediactive: Three week masterclass in digital media literacy from Dan Gillmor and ASU's News Co/Lab.
America's economy is cooked: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.
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This year's Nebula Awards will be held online: It's $150, and raising funds to bail out corona-shattered writers.
Make America Well Again stamps: from the artist who brought you the Trump Zero Cents stamp.
Data is the new toxic waste: It never was the "new oil" (my latest podcast).
Stock Jump: A ski-game that lets you play the stock charts of cratered businesses.
Murdering 20% of elderly Americans is bad strategy for the GOP: Terrified old people are the turkeys who vote for plutes' Christmas every four years.
Join me on the Quarantine Book Club: April 1, 3PM Pacific.
The Party of Death: It's a good time to buy exterminism futures.
Financial stability vs economic stability: Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid.
Quarantine reveals the falsity of the automation crisis: Augmentation isn't replacement.
Bailouts and moral hazard: If we never teach big business, it won't ever learn.
MIT's ingenious manual/automatic open source ventilator: Now in FDA testing.
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