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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is a scam.

You can voucher on it.

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A Trumpled Crypto Con 0

What can I say?

Grifters gotta grift.

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What You Watch Is Watching You 0

From Ars Technica, via Bruce Schneier:

Over the past few years, TV makers have seen rising financial success from TV operating systems that can show viewers ads and analyze their responses. Rather than selling as many TVs as possible, brands like LG, Samsung, Roku, and Vizio are increasingly, if not primarily, seeking recurring revenue from already-sold TVs via ad sales and tracking.

Scary details at the link.

Aside:

And people fret about government surveillance . . . .

Methinks corporate surveillance is much more dangerous.

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This New Gilded Age 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice notes that, in real estate price-fixing management company RealPage’s own words, the price-fix was in.

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The Crypto Con 0

I guess a life-long con artist just can’t resist the temptation, even if he be a bit late to the game.

No doubt, though, he will find plenty of pigeons in his flock.

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Loan Sharks 0

I notice that, when student loans are discussed, it is seldom noted that the price of college has skyrocketed while middle-class income has stagnated over the past 40 years of this new gilded age.

Mother Goose:  Is your son going to college?  Friend:  No.  He convinced us to give him the money college would cost, and then he retired.

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Gauging the Gouge in This New Gilded Age 0

Sam and the crew reveal the market farces used to rationalize greedflation.

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This New Gilded Age, One More Time 0

Man goose-stepping down the street carrying a sign reading,

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This New Gilded Age, Reprise 0

Union-busting is apparently the cool new retro thing for the gilders of this new gilded age.

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This New Gilded Age 0

As Mark Twain pointed out, history does not repeat itself, but it often echoes.

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Genius at Work 0

Man and woman standing at mailbox.  Man says to woman,

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Nor Any Drop To Drink 0

Farron discusses Jordan Chariton’s new book on the Flint water poisoning crisis.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Sam and the crew talk with Anne Kim, contributing editor at Washington Monthly, about the roots of the privitization scam.

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The Crypto Con 0

Now, it’s coming after your pension fund (assuming, of course, that you even have a pension fund in this New Gilded Age).

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The Entitlement Society 0

Boy, if this isn’t a manifestation of the entitlement society, I don’t know what is.

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Twits Own Twitter X Offenders 0

Elon Mush has a new suit.

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The Self-Made Man 0

Title:  Weirdo Welfare.  Frame One, captioned

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This New Gilded Age 0

The Washington Monthly’s Anne Kim takes a deep dive into the “Heritage” Foundation’s plan to bring back robber barons, aka Project 2025, and concludes that “it’s even worse than you think.”

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This New Gilded Age 0

Farron looks at the “Heritage” Foundation’s Project 2025 plan to raise taxes for the poor, who have litle money, and lower taxes for the rich, who have lots of money.

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Disparate Treatment 0

At the San Francisco Chronicle, law professor Samantha Buckingham wonders how Donald Trump’s numerous criminal trials might have gone if he were not protected by his (reputed) wealth.

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