There are just some things the market can’t do as well as the state sector through direct government spending.

This shouldn’t be rocket science but it is beyond the ken of our class of political mandarins who have the incentive not to understand this stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/why-cant-our-leaders-learn-from-30-years-of-failure-in-health-and-education?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=191805&subid=16790678&CMP=ema_632

Billmon tweets: If she loses, neolibs & Hillaryheads are gonna howl like banshees. Make 2000 Nader bitching sound like quiet mumurs.

Seems that a candidate cannot fail but only be failed.

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/779119610717175808?s=09

Because Silicon Valley gives super powers to douche bags. The founder of Oculus Rift is yet another douche.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-billionaire-secretly-funding-trump-s-meme-machine.html

Further to that graph I posted the other day.

Originally shared by Thomas Baekdal

What Killed The Newspapers? Google Or Facebook? Or…?https://www.baekdal.com/blog/what-killed-the-newspapers-google-or-facebook-or/

https://www.baekdal.com/blog/what-killed-the-newspapers-google-or-facebook-or/

At a 1938 rally in Hackensack, N.J., Bund members reportedly declared George Washington “the first Fascist” because, they claimed, he “knew democracy could not work.”

http://time.com/3880961/american-nazis-in-small-town-usa-1937/

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/steve-bannon-s-world-we-re-just-living-in-it

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Australian unemployment rate compared with polling sentiments about immigration intake being “too high”.

https://t.co/zyJDe8P5CC