Mammon category archive
The Snaring Economy 0
Welcome to the carrion crow school of economics.
One more time, “ride sharing” is nothing more than gypsy cabs with an app.
Merchants of Death, Reprise 0
Bill Torpy explores how one gun manufacture promotes its portable phalluses. Here’s one little example; follow the link for more.
The ad showed a boy, maybe 4 years old, with a semiautomatic rifle in his lap, along with a Bible passage: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Taking the Veil 0
So much for “render unto Caesar.”
Aside:
This is a dead giveaway–it’s all (or at least mostly) about the Benjamins.
Second Amendment Frights 0
Don’t kid yourself. It’s not about Constitutional rights or self-protection.
The Shills 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary marvels as ESPN’s relentless promoting of sports betting.
Muskrat Stats 0
Elon Musk tries to game the numbers.
Courting Disaster 0
At the Seattle Times, Hugh Spitzer reminds us that we’ve seen rogue Supreme Courts before. Here’s one of his examples; follow the link for more.
Dissenting from the 5-4 Lochner majority, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1905 that the court was improperly deriving legal doctrines from economic theory.
Courting Disaster 0
At northjersey.com, Gerri Budd and Donnalynn Scillieri several possible implications, one of which is this:
Follow the link, where they follow the money.
The Crypto Con Crash
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Paul Krugman wonders how the crypto con successfully conned so many persons. A snippet:
My answer is that while the crypto industry has never managed to come up with products that are much use in the real economy, it has been spectacularly successful at marketing itself, creating an image of being both cutting edge and respectable. It has done so, in particular, by cultivating prominent people and institutions.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Muskrat Law 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice takes a long, detailed, and lawyerly look at Twitter’s suit to force Elon Musk to honor his contract to buy said “social” media platform. It’s a fascinating read, even for a non-lawyer.
I won’t try to summarize it. I’ll just say that Patrice seems to think that Twitter’s lawyers are earning their fees.
