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The Coup We Are Not Talking About

  We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/facebook-surveillance-society-technology.html

nk The Fatuous Uproar About Robinhood and GameStop

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/the-fatuous-uproar-about-robinhood-and-gamestop.html  

GameStop slides after platforms place more restrictions on trading

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/business/gamestop-stock-robinhood-restrictions.html

In ‘Coffin Homes’ and ‘Cages,’ Hong Kong Lockdown Exposes Inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/world/asia/hong-kong-coronavirus-lockdown-inequality.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage  

Who Owns Stocks? Explaining the Rise in Inequality During the Pandemic

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/upshot/stocks-pandemic-inequality.html  

PK The Corrupt, the Clueless and Joe Biden

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/biden-republicans-stimulus.html  

Who’s Radical Now? The Case of Minimum Wages pk

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/opinion/minimum-wage-us.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Welcome To The ‘Turbulent Twenties’ Peter Turchin

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/were-on-the-verge-of-breakdown-a-data-scientists-take-on-trump-and-biden https://www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-the-turbulent-twenties/ location 283 in Stubborn Attachments

Trump Opens Habitat of a Threatened Owl to Timber Harvesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/climate/trump-spotted-owl.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Climate%20and%20Environment  

Thomas B. Edsall White Riot

  How racism, grievance, resentment and the fear of diminished status came together to fuel violence and mayhem on Jan. 6. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opinion/capitol-riot-white-grievance.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

When Getting High Is a Hobby, Not a Habit

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/review/drug-use-for-grown-ups-carl-l-hart.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

PRO-MARKET Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Liberal Order?

https://promarket.org/2020/06/09/are-we-witnessing-the-fall-of-the-american-liberal-order/  

The Most Concentrated Market in 40 Years

https://fortunefinancialadvisors.com/blog/the-most-concentrated-market-in-40-years/  

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Co… (Kindle Edition)

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B084M1W9WB/ref=pe_851940_564591000_em_1p_4_lm  

Hate in the Homeland

https://www.degruyter.com/princetonup/view/title/588749   https://www.american.edu/centers/university-excellence/research.cfm

He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World. Tim Berners-Lee

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage  

What Happened to Social Mobility in America? A New Aristocracy Has a Lock on Capital and Job

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/americas/2021-01-08/what-happened-social-mobility-america?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_posts&utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc   https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/meritocracy-book-daniel-markovits-inequality-rich

Krugman: Democracy is now threatened by malevolent tribalism.

  Trump received 46 percent of the vote, but the counties he won represented only  29 percent  of America’s economic output. There’s also a lot of white backlash over the nation’s growing racial diversity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/trump-republican-party.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage