Russia

Reference

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/russians-us-troops-syria-uproar-trump-345584


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/arts/virus-winds-of-change-podcast


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-taliban-bounty


https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-aircraft-intercepted-near-alaska-for-sixth-time-this-month-2020-6


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-bounties-to-taliban-linked-militants-resulted-in-deaths-of-us-troops-according-to-intelligence-assessments/2020/06/28/74ffaec2-b96a-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/russian-bounties-warnings-trump


https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2020

Russia – Bounties – US Forces


Biotech

Reference

CRISPR enables scientists to make changes in DNA much more easily than before.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/23/877543610/a-year-in-1st-patient-to-get-gene-editing-for-sickle-cell-disease-is-thriving


Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0561-9


Social Physics

Reference

How Revolutions Fail


https://medium.com/better-marketing/screw-your-opinions-give-us-your-analysis-672d92715405


Paul Graham – Four Quadrants

http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html


Greg Satell – Support

Why Innovation Takes More Than Genius


Franklin Templeton – Distorting Language

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2020/07/29/they-blinded-us-from-science

Topol – Church Spread Tweet

https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1292189076431331328-44

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-13/only-saving-lives-will-save-livelihoods



https://www.npr.org/2020/07/10/889037310/anatomy-of-a-covid-19-conspiracy-theory


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/nyregion/nyc-barber-shops-coronavirus


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/technology/antifa-local-disinformation

North Korea

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-north-korean-defectors-tale-shows-rotting-military-11593867607


https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/06/15/north-koreas-military-threatens-to-reenter-areas-demilitarized-under-inter-korean-agreements/


US Politics

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/gohmert-suit-pence-overturn-trumps-defeat-451485


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-overturn/2020/11/28/34f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/us/joe-biden-trump/republicans-caught-between-trumps-wrath-and-reality-have-splintered-into-two-groups


Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won’t play his games

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-gop-elections-challenge-438938


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/culture-wars-latinos-trump-438932


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-uses-power-of-presidency-to-try-to-overturn-the-election-and-stay-in-office/2020/11/19/bc89caa6-2a9f-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/trump-election-results-legal-team-438470


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-raffensperger-georgia-vote/2020/11/16/6b6cb2f4-283e-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html


https://thebulwark.com/be-alarmed/—44


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/shrinking-workforce-can-hurt-biden-436164


https://www.vox.com/2020/11/11/21559082/trump-dispute-election-fraud-electors


https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/10/most-republicans-dont-yet-dare-to-cross-donald-trump


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/anthony-tata-pentagon-policy-trump-obama-terrorist-b1720677.html


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-election-press-conference-four-seasons-total-landscaping-philadelphia-pennsylvania-watch-live-stream-today-2020-11-07/

“Networks don’t get to decide elections, courts do,”


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/after-trump-accuses-doctors-of-profiteering-medical-professionals-push-back-44


Fearing a ‘Blood Bath,’ Republican Senators Begin to Edge

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/politics/republican-senators-trump


https://www.nytimes.com/article/electoral-college-explained


https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/10/03/priestly-guidance-on-voting-is-dividing-the-catholic-church-in-america


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-succession-constitution


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/30/us/presidential-debate/its-the-kind-of-language-you-might-expect-from-a-dictator-trumps-remarks-on-election-integrity-and-poll-watching-alarm-experts


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-mark-meadows-on-face-the-nation-september-27-2020/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opinion/sunday/trump-politics-humor


https://medium.com/@ericjscholl/trump-reveals-his-nightmare-post-election-strategy-70262fb58317


https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ellen-knight-bolton-book-letter/c98f11bb205df88a/full.pdf


https://www.axios.com/bloomberg-group-trump-election-night-scenarios-a554e8f5-9702-437e-ae75-d2be478d42bb.html


https://medium.com/@ericjscholl/trumps-supporters-are-doing-something-they-haven-t-done-much-before-7078eaa7e558


https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-covid-new-york-coronavirus-de-blasio-shutdown-timing-11599836994


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809


In Woodward’s ‘Rage,’ Trump Consistently Makes Efforts To Bend Reality, Sell His Narrative

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911138032/woodward-book-says-trump-chose-to-downplay-deadliness-of-virus-to-avoid-panic


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/homeland-security-russia-trump


https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-08/trump-channels-noam-chomsky-on-u-s-aggression


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/trump-military-defense-industry-booster-410396


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/white-house-has-talked-va-secretary-about-taking-pentagon-job-n1239007


https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/09/08/trump-says-pentagon-leaders-are-under-defense-industrys-influence/


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/08/us/trump-vs-biden/trump-whose-administration-proposed-opening-offshore-waters-to-drilling-now-claims-credit-for-issuing-a-moratorium


https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html


https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trap-the-democrats-walked-right


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/04/presidents-are-expected-set-national-tone-what-we-got-with-trump-has-been-catastrophic/


According to a recent poll, 62% of Americans don’t feel comfortable speaking freely about politics. Is there really a free speech crisis in the U.S.?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/land-of-free-and-fettered-speech-11599231635


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/opinion/ed-markey-young-progressive-voters


https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for


https://the.ink/p/we-are-in-a-cold-civil-war


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-violence/2020/08/27/3f232e66-e578-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/04/white-house-racial-sensitivity-training/


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/trumps-weaponization-usps-and-census/615235/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-presented-the-mother-of-all-fabrications-on-the-white-house-lawn/2020/08/28/a08c2fb8-e8d9-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html


https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/08/31/postal-chief-dejoy-has-long-leveraged-connections-dollars/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tennessee-adopts-new-law-that-could-strip-some-protesters-of-voting-rights/2020/08/22/293d7d28-e4aa-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html


“There is simply no way to put Trumpism back into the bottle,” writes Gerald F. Seib. So the question for Republicans “is simple and stark: How to adapt their gospel so that it fits in the age of Trump?”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-trump-has-changed-the-republicans-11598023026


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/21/convention-shows-democrats-have-ceded-working-class-gop/


Biden VP Search Story

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/biden-harris


Exclusive: After Quitting Last Year, Senior U.S. Intelligence Official Now Talks

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902345240/exclusive-after-quitting-last-year-senior-u-s-intelligence-official-now-talks


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/12/us/biden-vs-trump/kanye-west-who-is-pursuing-a-spot-on-the-2020-ballot-met-with-jared-kushner


https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/who-will-guard-the-guardians-44


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/01/alexander-vindman-retiring-oped/


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/national-guard-white-house-virus-390968


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/elizabeth-warren-mark-esper-pentagon-nominee-391026


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/08/02/controversial-nominee-tata-appointed-to-top-defense-job-bypassing-congress/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/donald-trump-taxes-cyrus-vance


https://popular.info/p/trump-goes-postal


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-trump-campaign-came-to-court-qanon-the-online-conspiracy-movement-identified-by-the-fbi-as-a-violent-threat/2020/08/01/dd0ea9b4-d1d4-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail/


https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-chaotic-design-of-trumps-mail-in-voting-rants


https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/07/30/senator-union-leader-postal-service-considers-downsizing/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/trump-delay-election-coronavirus


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/pentagon-protesters-journalists-adversaries-386854

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/pentagon-strips-out-language-protesters-adversaries-388751


https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/02/cracks-in-the-republican-party-establishment-are-getting-bigger/


https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/07/21/house-cheney-gop-conference-375812


-medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-about-antifa-provides-fodder-for-foreign-propagandists-61dfa6232c02-44\


In a letter released Thursday, Wolf, the acting DHS secretary, said, “Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.”

“A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice,” Wolf wrote, denigrating protests against racism in the U.S. criminal justice system as an angry mob. “To attack it is to attack America.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland-44


https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-071420/


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/07/09/esper-announces-leak-investigation-at-pentagon/


https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/07/does-pentagon-understand-what-navy/166693/


https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/07/07/trump-officials-under-congressional-scrutiny-over-misleading-opm-testimony/


https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-confront-a-racist-national-history


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/trump-politics-psychology

Academic studies show that Republicans were far less willing to adopt safety procedures and were far more skeptical of scientific warnings than their Democratic counterparts


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/politics/trump-schools-coronavirus

President Trump spearheaded an administration-wide push to pry open the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, the next phase of his effort to get the economy on its feet.


https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter


According to Harvard and MIT, the policy would effectively strand hundreds of thousands of international students studying in the U.S. and muddy plans for a return to class amid the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888871130/harvard-mit-sue-immigration-officials-over-rule-blocking-some-international-stud


Lt. Col. Vindman, Witness In Trump Impeachment, Is Retiring From Military

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888933684/lt-col-vindman-witness-in-trump-impeachment-is-retiring-from-military


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/electoral-college-supreme-court


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magazine/isabel-wilkerson-caste


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/biden-trump-fundraising-2020


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/trump-2020-campaign-problems


https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/recruiting/2020/07/01/mother-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-demands-answers-amid-russian-bounty-allegations/


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/why-the-mueller-investigation-failed


https://variety.com/2020/politics/features/nancy-pelosi-trump-election-2020-democrats-hollywood-1203521090/


https://www.airforcetimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/27/i-am-confused-scared-and-afraid/


https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/28/officials-continue-to-throw-capt-brett-cozier-under-the-bus-for-outbreak-on-navy-carrier/


https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/28/commentary-asking-yourself-the-question/


https://www.navytimes.com/naval/2020/06/26/us-navys-chief-learning-officer-announces-departure-as-pentagon-exodus-continues/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/michael-flynn-sidney-powell


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/workers-removed-thousands-of-social-distancing-stickers-before-trumps-tulsa-rally-according-to-video-and-a-person-familiar-with-the-set-up/2020/06/27/f429c3be-b801-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html


https://medium.com/discourse/why-we-need-house-speaker-shelia-jackson-lee-af12443bc7b1


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/esper-trump-defense-military


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/white-house-intensifies-effort-to-install-pentagon-personnel-seen-as-loyal-to-trump/2020/06/25/1bfeee3a-9f86-11ea-9d96-c3f7c755fd6e_story.html


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/opm-chief-resigns-134541


https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-federal-intervention-5g-huawei-china-nokia-trump-cisco-11593099054


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/23/griffin-porter-resign-from-top-dod-tech-jobs/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/politics/arizona-2020-election-democrats-republicans


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/what-fiona-hill-learned-in-the-white-house


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/we-dont-see-color-trump-rallygoers-explain-black-lives-matter-protests-to-their-children/2020/06/21/79ee890c-b40c-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html


https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/


Attorney General’s controversial firing of the Manhattan U.S. Attorney was the latest action to concern his allies

https://www.wsj.com/articles/attorney-general-barr-known-by-aides-as-the-buffalo-scrutinized-over-firing-of-u-s-attorney-11592749511


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/evangelical-church-trump-alabama


https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881096897/as-the-culture-wars-shift-president-trump-struggles-to-adapt

Culture wars have been part of American politics for decades. Hot-button issues like immigration, family values and respect for the American flag can get a more powerful reaction from voters than dry debates over taxes or Medicare.


https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bolton-book-exposes-rare-fissures-between-trump-and-pompeo/2020/06/18/9e218bd4-b0e8-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/pentagon-official-resigns-white-house-nixes-nomination-328552

Experts worry that the loyalty purge will cost the Pentagon talent and institutional memory, and further stretch the officials who remain as the department struggles to fill more than a dozen senior positions.

“This kind of churn is generally bad because the wider the cracks are, the more things fall through the cracks,” said Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College, who was speaking in a personal capacity.

Mr. Trump is making it very clear that he has no room for even mild dissent, and that he has no desire to include anyone but true loyalists in his government.”

It also may have a chilling effect on qualified people who are considering jobs in the Pentagon.

“I’ve never seen something quite like this before,” said one former senior DoD official who served in the Obama administration. “There are good qualified experienced people who are no longer interested in the opportunity to serve because they don’t want to expose themselves to a situation like this. It does put a real chill on the environment for people.”


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/18/kathryn-wheelbarger-top-foreign-policy-defense-official-resigns/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/impeachment-casts-shadow-over-army-officers-promotion/2020/06/17/f6fc7c82-b0ac-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/bolton-book-trump-impeached


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/16/elaine-mccusker-pentagon-comptroller-resigns/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/12/crises-multiply-trumps-senate-allies-respond-her-emails/


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-white-house-vs-john-bolton-11591813953


https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-georgia-primary-and-the-state-of-voting-rights


https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/can-the-constitution-reach-donald-trumps-corruption-emoluments


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/trump-fox-news-pentagon-policy-chief-312172


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn

Laws & Law Enforcement

Notes on laws & law enforcement

Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland


Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/24/police-huntsville-alabama-mental-health-call/


In a letter released Thursday, Wolf, the acting DHS secretary, said, “Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.”

“A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice,” Wolf wrote, denigrating protests against racism in the U.S. criminal justice system as an angry mob. “To attack it is to attack America.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland


Karen Bass, an African American Democrat now in her fifth term.

crack provoked benighted policies that “criminalized a public health problem.” Leaving her position as a clinical instructor at the University of Southern California’s Department of Family Medicine, she founded in 1990 the nonprofit Community Coalition (CoCo) to devise nonpolice measures for addressing crime.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-karen-bass-is-the-right-pick-for-joe-bidens-vp/2020/07/07/66e9910e-c086-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story


Those who want to remake a police model that has set off unrest and despair would do well to look at the experiences of Asia, Africa and Europe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/world/police-brutality-protests


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/seattle-autonomous-zone-chop-shootings


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/nyregion/central-park-amy-cooper-christian-racism


https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/how-americas-wars-in-asia-militarized-the-police-at-home/


https://www.wsj.com/articles/seattles-chaotic-autonomous-zone-11592435610


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/police-chiefs-fatal-shooting-atlanta


https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/movies/oj-made-in-america-review


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zone


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn


Economics

https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/11/chinese-communist-party-just-showed-jack-ma-rest-us-whos-boss/


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ray-dalio-on-changing-world-order-and-rise-of-china-213141716.html


https://medium.com/the-ascent/warren-buffetts-recent-explanation-of-how-money-now-works-is-the-most-important-in-history-2e45461a5969


https://interconnected.blog/jack-ma-bund-finance-summit-speech/


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wildly-popular-trades-behind-the-markets-swoon-and-surge-11599989400


Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled


http://www.oecd.org/education/The-economic-impacts-of-coronavirus-covid-19-learning-losses.pdf


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration


New Report: Tech Could Fuel an Age of Freedom—or Make Civilization Collapse


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/magazine/food-insecurity-hunger-us


https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/caitlinlong/2019/09/25/the-real-story-of-the-repo-market-meltdown-and-what-it-means-for-bitcoin/amp/


Spending to combat coronavirus fallout has lifted government debt to levels not seen since WWII among advanced economies. Cutting it will be a lot harder this time.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lifts-government-debt-to-wwii-levelscutting-it-wont-be-easy-11598191201


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-unemployment-delays-dc/2020/08/01/50016264-c522-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html


Zambia was a model in Wall Street’s rush to issue debt for the poorest nations. Now it’s a case study in how debt load left developing economies ill-prepared for Covid-19.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-coronavirus-developing-nation-africa-debt-crisis-11595455147


What capitalism urgently needs is a new, more focused approach to government intervention, writes Ruchir Sharma—one that will ease the pain of disasters but then leave economies free to grow on their own.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rescues-ruining-capitalism-11595603720


With some 25 million Americans set to lose $600 a week in jobless payments July 31, Congress must decide whether they are a vital boost to the economy, or are keeping people from going back to work

https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-600-a-week-jobless-aid-nears-end-congress-faces-a-quandary-11595151000


Since 1980, the incomes of the very rich have grown faster than the economy. The upper middle class has kept pace with the economy, while the middle class and poor have fallen behind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/opinion/income-inequality-upper-middle-class


https://www.militarytimes.com/education-transition/2020/06/30/majority-of-military-families-say-they-lack-support-upon-transitioning-out-survey-finds/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/working-from-home-failure


New Report: Tech Could Fuel an Age of Freedom—or Make Civilization Collapse


https://diff.substack.com/p/lemonades-s-1-solving-the-market


https://marker.medium.com/how-robinhood-convinced-millennials-to-trade-their-way-through-a-pandemic-1a1db97c7e08


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/corporate-profit-sharing-inequality


http://umich.edu/~thecore/doc/Friedman.pdf

Friedman – Companies – Increase Profits – New York Magazine – 1979


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opinion/income-wealth-inequality-america

Over the past four decades, American workers have suffered a devastating loss of economic power, manifest in their wages, benefits and working conditions. The annual economic output of the United States has almost tripled, but, with the help of policymakers from both political parties, the wealthy hoarded the fruits.

In the nation’s slaughterhouses, the average worker in 1982 made $24 an hourin inflation-adjusted dollars, or $50,000 a year. Today the average meatpacker processes significantly more meat — and makes less than $14 an hour.

The hundreds of thousands of home health care aides, often female, often minorities, who care for a nation of aging baby boomers rarely receive paid time to care for their own families.

Even in the high-flying technology sector, companies have found ways to leave their workers behind. More than half of the people who work for Google do not actually work for Google. They are classified as contractors, which means they do not need to be treated as employees.


Bump ’n Grind coffee shop spent less on beans last year than on the interchange fees that enable cashless payments


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/technology/square-jack-dorsey-pandemic-withholding


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/dining/padma-lakshmi-taste-the-nation


https://blog.asmartbear.com/quotes-startup-founders


https://medium.com/concoda/this-is-what-happens-to-markets-when-you-print-trillions-of-dollars-615574dac796


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronavirus-banks-collapse/612247/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/upshot/coronavirus-spending-rich-poor


COVID Small Business Relief – Govt Distribution of taxpayer money

https://popular.info/p/the-500-billion-black-box

“You get the money. You’ll get it the same day.” Promises of forgivable loans to small businesses hurt by lockdowns failed many that needed them.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ppp-small-business-loans-left-behind-many-of-americas-neediest-firms-11592407677


Airline Economics

United said it expects to slow its cash burn rate to $40 million a day in the second quarter and $30 million a day in the third quarter, as demand for travel has started to show signs of improvement. Still, the airline expects June revenue to be down 90% from a year ago and July revenue to be down as much as 88%.

Loyalty programs are a rich vein for airlines to secure cash. Co-branded credit cards associated with the programs essentially allow carriers to book revenue from a slice of all customers’ spending. That comes in handy at times like this, when bookings have nearly dried up, but customers continue to use airline-branded cards for other purchases. United said its MileagePlus program generates over $5 billion in cash a year.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-to-put-up-frequent-flier-program-for-5-billion-loan-11592227825


Volatility Trading

https://www.wsj.com/articles/volatility-is-everywhere-the-market-tactic-thats-driving-stocks-haywire-11591977978


https://www.fastcompany.com/90506227/how-covid-19-has-changed-investing-according-to-vcs-at-sequoia-insight-forerunner-500-startups-and-more


International Politics

Notes on international politics

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-have-targeted-200-groups-tied-to-presidential-election-microsoft-says-11599763502


https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-bidens-china-policy-it-looks-a-lot-like-trumps-11599759286


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-geopolitics-of-energy-11599836521


https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-01-23/why-america-must-lead-again


https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/08/05/army-v-corps-headquarters-will-be-first-unit-move-poland.html


https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/poland-agrees-to-pay-almost-all-costs-of-us-troop-presence/


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-germany-military/trumps-military-shuffle-in-europe-will-take-time-and-be-costly-idUSKCN24V28Q


https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/07/31/afrcom-ordered-to-plan-move-out-of-germany-latest-pullout-from-key-european-ally/


https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-spite-germany-plan-11596064244


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/european-union-coronavirus-aid

https://freedomhouse.org/article/poland-and-hungary-must-not-be-ignored


Not Necessarily Done When You’ve Won: On Kicking a Great Power When It’s Down


Wrestling with Fog: On the Elusiveness of Liberal Order


https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/east-asia/2020-07-08/taiwan-next-hong-kong


The Long, Perilous Route Thousands Of Indians Have Risked For A Shot At Life In U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/814957398/the-long-perilous-route-thousands-of-indians-have-risked-for-a-shot-at-life-in-u


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/hong-kong-security-law-tech


The great power threats that exist in the Western Hemisphere look different than those in other parts of the globe, U.S. Southern Command’s Adm. Craig Faller told the Washington Examiner, with China seeking port rights and technological penetration and Russia increasing disinformation and intelligence-gathering.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/exclusive-southcom-commander-describes-china-russia-threats-in-the-americas


https://www.businessinsider.com/us-troops-fireworks-south-korea-july-4th-2020-7


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/coronavirus-us-embassy-saudi-arabia


Reflections on Ordering the World


https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html


https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-federal-intervention-5g-huawei-china-nokia-trump-cisco-11593099054


https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-u-s-is-moving-troops-out-of-germany-11592757552


https://medium.com/dfrlab/taiwans-battle-against-covid-19-disinformation-eaf76bf57d14


https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-18/how-prevent-war-asia


https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/trump-troop-cut-in-germany-fits-a-pattern-of-hitting-allies-1.634388


Revelations about Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Policy


China’s Strategic Assessment of the Ladakh Clash


What two years ago was mostly a confrontation between China and the U.S. is developing into a broader showdown with the advanced democracies.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-united-front-on-china-starts-to-take-shape-11592398800


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/asia/china-india-border-himalayas


https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/announcement-expected-on-troop-increase-in-poland-us-official-says-1.633805


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-chooses-a-senseless-withdrawal-from-germany-he-threatens-national-security/2020/06/08/9e95ad36-a9a7-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/world/europe/germany-troop-withdrawal-america


Factional Struggles Emerge in Virus-Afflicted Taliban Top Ranks


Richard Haas – Domestic Events & International Impact

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-05/protests-pandemic-world-watching


Kevin Rudd – US China Post COVID-19

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-06/coming-post-covid-anarchy


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/fcc-failed-to-monitor-chinese-telecoms-for-almost-20-years-senate-report/


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