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Here’s to wishing you the best of luck in the birth lottery—you’re going to need it | Heather Boushey

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Here’s to wishing you the best of luck in the birth lottery you’re going to need it. January 23, 2014. Middot; by hboushey. Reposting my piece from The E. Economists are always proving things my Grandmother already knew. Today, we’re learning more about the fact that where you’re born the birth lottery matters for where you’ll end up in life. This research poses a challenge to the Great Gatsby Curve. And less economic mobility. Than most other developed nations. By Chetty and his co-authors finds that wh...

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The Slack Wire: June 2015

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160;                        Dreary, Out-of-Date Academic Controversializing. Friday, June 26, 2015. OECD: Activist Shareholders Are Bad for Investment. Cross-posted from the new blog. At jwmason.org. Please comment there, and update your bookmarks - at some point soon I'm going to stop updating this blog.]. The OECD has just released its new Business and Finance Outlook. Chapter 2, "Corporate Investment and the Stagnation Puzzle," has a very interesting discussion. Earnings may be retained for capital sp...

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Negative Outlook?: central banks, inflation and the value of money

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Anything to help advance the cause. It is easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor. ". Lannister. Baratheon. Stark. Tyrell. They're all just spokes on a wheel. This one's on top, then that's ones on top and on and on it spins, crushing those on the ground. I'm not going to stop the wheel. I'm going to break the wheel.". The Lord of Light wants his enemies burned. The Drowned God wants them drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Of the ...

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Negative Outlook?: Rectify

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Anything to help advance the cause. It is easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor. ". Lannister. Baratheon. Stark. Tyrell. They're all just spokes on a wheel. This one's on top, then that's ones on top and on and on it spins, crushing those on the ground. I'm not going to stop the wheel. I'm going to break the wheel.". The Lord of Light wants his enemies burned. The Drowned God wants them drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Ransomw...

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Once Upon a Time There Was Ukraine | THE MOSCOW REPORT

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Once Upon a Time There Was Ukraine. Peter Lavelle: Excellent read – read it, memorize key points, save it, then blast the western mainstream and associated liars and pressitutes. Christian B. Malaparte. It was a funeral going to an end. The oddity was the exulting attendees. That very day the Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution on self-withdrawal of the President of Ukraine from performing his constitutional duties and setting early elections . Namely, it claimed that Yanukovych. 3,827 more words. Syrian ...

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The Plunder of Russia in the 1990s | THE MOSCOW REPORT

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The Plunder of Russia in the 1990s. An old Russian gold mining town. The other day I was surprised to learn that Jeffrey Sachs, the creator of shock therapy capitalism, who participated in the looting of Russia in the 1990s, is now NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top adviser for health care. So we in NY will get shock therapy, much as the Russians did two decades ago. Here is a story I wrote for The Wanderer in 2000:. How Clinton and Company and The Bankers Plundered Russia. By Paul Likoudis (May 4, 2000). Notify...

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BAMF: Badass Marxist Feminist: The Theory and Gains of Excess, Expanded

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BAMF: Badass Marxist Feminist. Musings on and analysis of cultural phenomena from a feminist and Marxist perspective. Sunday, February 22, 2015. The Theory and Gains of Excess, Expanded. I'll cease waxing grandiose and explain. This post is a follow up to my theory of excess, at the request of exactly two readers (the masses! Now for the original quote and post in question. The original example, Abortion Barbie's purportedly successful filibuster. Gains are made at the point at which activism exceeds acc...

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BAMF: Badass Marxist Feminist: How to Disappoint Kathi Weeks

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BAMF: Badass Marxist Feminist. Musings on and analysis of cultural phenomena from a feminist and Marxist perspective. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. How to Disappoint Kathi Weeks. Kathi Weeks's The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Don't mistake me: I understand the refusal of work as a political strategy under capital to display the power of the working class,* but I had always conceived these displays as having the end goal of less or better work, not no work.

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BAMF: Badass Marxist Feminist: April 2013

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BAMF: Badass Marxist Feminist. Musings on and analysis of cultural phenomena from a feminist and Marxist perspective. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. A MF Response to Silvia Federici's "Wages Against Housework" (1975). Here is my analysis:. They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work. They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism. Every miscarriage is a work accident. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both working conditions…but homosexuality is workers’ control of production, not the end ...4) Federi...