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How to stop the plutocracy game: index the top 1%’s tax rates to decreasing inequality

Another way to use the tax system to attack inequality and the incentives for wage suppression: index the tax rates on the top 1% of…

Jun 25, 2020

How to stop the plutocracy game: index the top 1%’s tax rates to decreasing inequality

Jun 25, 2020

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Curated Newsletters

What West Bank Arabs* Really Mean

When they say from the river to the sea

Nov 11, 2023

What West Bank Arabs* Really Mean

Nov 11, 2023

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Palestinians’ Wish Granted. Israelis Return to Where They Came From

Palestine free, from the river to the sea, but faces financial Nakba

Dec 18, 2023

Palestinians’ Wish Granted. Israelis Return to Where They Came From

Dec 18, 2023

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Israeli Brain Wave Reading Chip Disarms Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran

Phones, GPS, RPGs, rockets using Einsteinian physics fail fanatics’ faith in 72 virgins, the archangel Gabriel and creationism.

Jan 28

Israeli Brain Wave Reading Chip Disarms Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran

Jan 28

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Israel vs Palestine: Which Side Needs Delusion Demolition?

Here we downsize the choice to Tik-Tok attention spans

Feb 5

Israel vs Palestine: Which Side Needs Delusion Demolition?

Feb 5

I used Kahneman as the textbook for my behavioral investing course in Riga Business School.

As an opener of multiple mystery boxes this principle was always front of mind in decisionmaking: decoupling earnings from time spent and…

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The old muscle jobs that encoded working class male identity aren't coming back.

I remember an interview in the book The Politics of Resentment with an underemployed handyman in rural western Wisconsin, who'd earned a…

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The question is which version gains control of America's corporate world, the social darwinist…

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After reading this about how democracies commit suicide would you still think I underestimate the…

A far more overtly authoritarian Mussolini (compared to the ADHD-driven Trump Mussomini) took three years to seize absolute power. So the…

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Demographic destiny Democrats demolished by interracial idiocracy signup to Trump U.

MAGA manosphere testosterone and egg inflation crush identity politics

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Demographic destiny Democrats demolished by interracial idiocracy signup to Trump U.

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Lester Golden

Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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