Link. Could America really become a Haiti?
Daily Archives: July 9, 2021
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Link. It still around. Does it add value? In retrospect was it a good idea?
“The core paradox of modern China — that it is a hypercapitalist success story while remaining a Communist dictatorship — is resolving itself in favor of the latter.”
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“Americans have concrete reasons to be skeptical of assurances that COVID-related health care won’t empty their wallets”
Link. Executive orders?
Finder metadata: “In ~/Movies, ~/Music and ~/Pictures the Finder offers extended options according to the types of file it expects to find there.”
Link. Whoa. Lots of weirdness here.
“many companies in the private sector and federal and state government agencies remain rife with vulnerabilities that Russian actors can find and exploit.”
Link. People who live in glass houses …
“once we actually account for LBJ’s programs in the statistics, we see that the War on Poverty was actually a big success.”
Link. Rightist critics look only at income, omitting the poverty reduction interventions.