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Economic Bubble

The Problem with Keynesian Economics

by John Mauldin In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes wrote: The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed t…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

US senator’s bill seeks to push back on Saudis for rights record

The Republican chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch, has introduced legislation seeking to push back on Saudi Arabia over its human rights record and criticising Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The bill, seen by Reuters …

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Obamacare

Obamacare Had Another Bad Day In Court. That’s Pretty Alarming.

A legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act went before a panel of three federal judges on Tuesday and got a credulous, sympathetic-sounding hearing from the two judges who were appointed by Republicans. Yes, it’s happening again. This latest lawsuit, whic…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Times Square

Apollo 50th Celebrations to Span 50 States, Times Square, Washington Monument

The Washington Monument will transform into a Saturn V rocket, Times Square will turn into Tranquility Base and the "Eagle" will land nightly at the Rose Bowl in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. More than 250 events spanning all…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Xi Jinping

S&P 500 Touches 3,000 as Stock Rally Powers On

Tech companies have some of the highest capitalizations in the stock market. (Microsoft is worth more than $1 trillion.) Such large valuations give these tech giants significant influence over the S&P 500. Thats not to say the rally this year has not ha…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Electric Scooter

Pros And Cons Of Shareable Electric Scooters

Shareable electric scooter programs have started to roll out into U.S. cities, leading to debate over whether their benefits outweigh the potential consequences. The Onion looks at the pros and cons of shareable electric scooters. PRO Sturdy, but still ligh…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Checkpoint

The big reach of the Little Red Book

Is the Beijing Consensus finally replacing the Washington Consensus? In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Ethiopian president Meles Zenawi gave a series of speeches lauding Chinas developmental state as an alternative to a failed neoliberal mode…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Holocaust

How American Corporations Are Policing Online Speech Worldwide

In the winter of 2010, a 19-year-old Moroccan man named Kacem Ghazzali logged into his email to find a message from Facebook informing him that a group he had created just a few days prior had been removed from the platform without explanation. The group, ent…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Obamacare

Will Another Court Vote to Strike Down Obamacare?

Nearly a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the health law is still tied up in the courts. You could be forgiven for having lost track of the latest in Obamacare lawsuit news, which now involves conservative states suing a federal government…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch NASA Small Astrophysics Mission

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket. NASA said that it selected SpaceX to launch the Imaging X-Ray Pol…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

The Problem with Keynesian Economics

US senator’s bill seeks to push back on Saudis for rights record

Obamacare Had Another Bad Day In Court. That’s Pretty Alarming.

Apollo 50th Celebrations to Span 50 States, Times Square, Washington Monument

S&P 500 Touches 3,000 as Stock Rally Powers On

Pros And Cons Of Shareable Electric Scooters

The big reach of the Little Red Book

How American Corporations Are Policing Online Speech Worldwide

Will Another Court Vote to Strike Down Obamacare?

SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch NASA Small Astrophysics Mission

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