Pluralistic: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (21 Oct 2024)

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Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar: We don't tax billionaires to fight the national debt. We tax billionaires to fight BILLIONAIRES.
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Pluralistic: Linkdump Minkchump (16 Dec 2023)

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Linkdump Minkchump: A thoroughly assorted Saturday.
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Pluralistic: Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict (01 Nov 2023)

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Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict: If conservatives were really interested in millennial life-chances, they'd demand inheritance taxes, not Social Security cuts.
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Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2022

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Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism: A planned economy run by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
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Pluralistic: 20 Nov 2021

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Inflation or price-gouging?: Big business loves inflation talk.
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Pluralistic: 17 May 2021

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Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS: Why we can't have nice things.
The Public Interest Internet: Reviving pre-enclosure glory.
Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Now, onto the audiobook mastering!
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Pluralistic: 01 May 2021

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Political economy vs inflation: Larry Summers is a dope.
This day in history: 2020
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Pluralistic: 8 Apr 2021

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We CAN have nice things: Why – and how – America's New New Deal should go VERY VERY big.
Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout: Once a progressive lion, now a shill for the worst companies on Earth. Fuck that guy sideways with a brick.
60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism: The magic realism of Fernando Livschitz.
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Pluralistic: 18 Feb 2021

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Planet Money on HP's myriad ripoffs: Ink-stained wretches of the world, unite!
Strength in numbers: The crisis in accounting.
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Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2021

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Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.
Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons: F-cache considered harmful.
The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself: Another round of austerity will destroy the European project.
Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories: When Paul Dacre and Katharine Viner agree…
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