Monthly Archives: June 2020
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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