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when there are so many much better examples of white privilege.

at least from some sources?

“Take away the employer-run health care system, and businesses would… have to provide livable wages to attract workers [and] the military would lose one of its major mechanisms to acquire its cannon fodder.”

that were either legalized or invented along the way:

Leveraged buy-outs
Speculative credit derivatives (CDO’s, CLO’s, etc.)
High frequency trading
Consolidation of depositary and speculative investment banking
Revolving door between Wall St. and its regulators
Lax SEC enforcement
Lax antitrust enforcement
Lax enforcement of paper markets for met…[Read more]

24/7.

however sound DeepFuckingValue’s original analysis of the stock may have been, it’s now in a huge bubble.  And a lot of investors in hedge funds being squeezed may be pensions or the like.  This is not to argue that the Redditors shouldn’t do what they’re doing; what I mean to argue is that the whole system is totally f—ed.  It should never ha…[Read more]

“We want to see the loss porn.”

The Fed has created a monster.  Unfortunately, the rest of us will be caught in the cross-fire.

nt

the possibility of “suicided” is being investigated (were the victims distressed about their own conduct, or did they know too much about others’?)

at least one of the men involved disavowed support for either party and did have connections to antifa.

I really think there are a lot of people who are pissed off about both the increasing incursions on our personal liberty and the looting of our economy.  And elites in both parties keep telling us that the rowdiest among us are working for the…[Read more]

there are too few voices critiquing establishment elites of any stripe.

You need to provide the context.

Just adopt rules to the effect that employers must provide the same benefits or cash equivalent thereof to every employee and independent contractor or free-lancer, prorated for hours worked.

So if a free-lancer is hired to work 50% of the hours of a full-time employee, the free-lancer should get the higher of either 50% of the actual benefits…[Read more]

Call your congresscritters and make noise!

They’re doing an amazing job considering the circumstances.

And they remain the most private means of communication short of meeting on a park bench.

should we not object to oppressive behavior here?

@bearian
When does it say that? Or another source? Details please!

Hedges is the intellectual and is I think wiser; but I like how Dore pushes him on the practicalities – like, yes, what about a third party?  Hedges dodged that question, or did I miss something?

i.e., to keep ICU beds from overflowing. They won’t necessarily protect you from getting the virus, or prevent you from transmitting it once you have it. That’s why, until most people are vaccinated or have acquired antibodies by getting the disease, we should still mask and socially distance, to reduce the spread to grandmas & other vulnerable…[Read more]

The problem is that the Fed’s been flowing geysers of cash into Wall St. while Congressional actions and inaction have been steadily strangling Main St.  $2k checks would even things up a little bit, and it’s likely to do more for the real economy than the trillions pumped into Wall T; but both are expenses that must eventually be paid on way or another.