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Dec 18, 2020

Reshuffling the Capitalist Portfolio

Moe Tkacik has a piece at In These Times that is ostensibly about the tech sector and antitrust. I don’t want to pollute the beautifully curated garden of the People’s Policy Project website with a response so slapped-together as this one, which is why I’ve put it here. At the…

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Reshuffling the Capitalist Portfolio
Reshuffling the Capitalist Portfolio

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Jul 22, 2020

Liberal Pluralism Is Fake

The coolest thing about modernity is that nearly every college-educated person in society has performatively adopted the hegemonic notion that liberal pluralism is good, but none of them actually believes this. Instead, they much more sensibly believe that their worldviews are good and should be promoted and that clashing worldviews…

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Liberal Pluralism Is Fake
Liberal Pluralism Is Fake

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Jul 17, 2020

Identitarian Deference Continues to Roil Liberalism

Seven years ago, I coined the term “identitarian deference” (ID) to describe the idea that “privileged individuals should defer to the opinions and views of oppressed individuals, especially on topics relevant to those individuals’ oppression.” …

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Identitarian Deference Continues to Roil Liberalism
Identitarian Deference Continues to Roil Liberalism

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Nov 2, 2019

What Does David Dayen Think a Middle Class Tax Is?

Like a lot of journalists last week, David Dayen wrote up Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All (M4A) financing plan with the talking points she sent out about it. In his piece “Warren’s Medicare for All Plan Includes No New Taxes on the Middle Class,” he writes that: The financing pays…

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What Does David Dayen Think a Middle Class Tax Is?
What Does David Dayen Think a Middle Class Tax Is?
Politics

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Sep 17, 2019

The Math of the Working Families Party Endorsement

I was slightly amused and slightly annoyed yesterday when I saw the Working Families Party endorse Elizabeth Warren for president and then subsequently refuse to release vote tallies and clearly lie about why they aren’t releasing them. The WFP endorsement process works by tallying up party member votes and party…

Politics

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The Math of the Working Families Party Endorsement
The Math of the Working Families Party Endorsement
Politics

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Sep 10, 2019

Sawicky Concedes the Point

Max Sawicky claimed that the US could not finance a $10,000 payment to every adult and implored everyone to “do the math,” which for him just meant comparing the $3.2 trillion aggregate sum to the current $4.4 trillion federal budget. I pointed out that the net operating surplus, a broad…

Economics

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Economics

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Sep 7, 2019

My Favorite Glenn Kessler Fuck Up

Ryan Grim has a wonderful story at The Intercept about Washington Post’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler and his nearly constant fuck ups, most of which seem to be directed towards left-wing politicians or facts favorable to left-wing critiques. Grim provides a ton of examples in his piece, but he misses…

Politics

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My Favorite Glenn Kessler Fuck Up
My Favorite Glenn Kessler Fuck Up
Politics

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Jul 29, 2019

Is Insurance Churn a Problem or Not?

Ezra Klein has a piece at Vox about insurance churn. I put out a quick short response to it with a list of statistics on insurance churn that I had cited in prior posts of mine on the topic. …

Healthcare

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Healthcare

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Jul 26, 2019

What’s the deal with the unfair labor practice charge against Sanders’s campaign?

A former Sanders campaign staffer filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against the campaign a short while ago (Bloomberg story; redacted charge). A few people have asked me my opinion of this since I used to work for the NLRB. So I figured I would write this post. Obviously…

Politics

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What’s the deal with the unfair labor practice charge against Sanders’s campaign?
What’s the deal with the unfair labor practice charge against Sanders’s campaign?
Politics

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Jun 15, 2019

The MMT Solution to Inflation is Using Mass Layoffs to Bid Down Wages

One year ago, I wrote a piece that was just a series a quotes from Randy Wray’s 1997 paper titled “Government as Employer of Last Resort: Full Employment Without Inflation.” …

Economics

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The MMT Solution to Inflation is Using Mass Layoffs to Bid Down Wages
The MMT Solution to Inflation is Using Mass Layoffs to Bid Down Wages
Economics

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