Wednesday, August 31, 2016

MID-WEEK READING (August 31, 2016)


What's the Alt-Right (LA Times)?


What are the biggest defence budgets in the world (Telegraph)?


Alaskans witness collapsing mountains, shattered lives (Truth Out).


The plight of the white working class isn't economic, it's cultural (The Federalist).


Someone is wrong on the Internet. That's where I come in (Washington Post).



THE EPIPEN IS NOT MIGHTER THAN THE SWORD

Big Pharma's dirty secret: EpiPen was developed entirely with taxpayer money (U.S. Uncut).

The CEO who hiked EpiPen prices actually just said, "No one's more frustrated than me" (Slate).


Pharma CEO gave herself an $18 million raise after hiking EpiPen prices (U.S. Uncut).


EpiPen users unleash wrath on Manchin: 'Your daughter should be charged as an accomplice to murder' (Raw Story).


Why did Mylan hike the EpiPen prices 400%? Because they could (Forbes).



LET'S TALK ABOUT DRUGS

This chart reveals the inhumanity of U.S. drug prices compared to other countries (U.S. Uncut).

Disgusted with sky-high drug prices, California take on Big Pharma (Truth Out).


Good Lord. Even the price of insulin is skyrocketing (Slate).


Legalize it all: How to win the war on drugs (Harper's Magazine).



FOR THE MAЯKET SOCIALISTS IN AMEЯIKA

Nightmare on Main Street: America's housing system was at the centre of the last crisis. It still has not been properly reformed (The Economist).

Corporate welfare at its ugliest ... Inside the administration's $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers (Washington Post).


Overcharged: The high cost of high finance ... $12.9 trillion to $22.7 trillion (Roosevelt Institute).



LATINOS

I'm Latino. I'm Hispanic. And they're different, so I drew a comic to explain (Vox).

Latinos age slower than other ethnicities, UCLA study shows (UCLA Newsroom).



TRUMP

Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is registered voter at vacant Florida home (The Guardian).

Trump lawyer send 'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter a Cease-and-Desist letter (NY Times).


Trump campaign's new CEO peddled conspiracy theories about Clinton team (Mother Jones).


Secret ledger in Ukraine lists cash for Donald Trump's campaign chief (NY Times).



FINANCIALS

Paul Singer says, "Everyone is in the dark"; warns of "sudden, intense market breakdown" (Zero Hedge).

A closer look at the Federal Reserve's securities lending program (The Big Picture / Barry Ritholtz).


The counterfactual on QE (The Big Picture).



CONSERVATIVES LIVING THE DREAM

U.S. pastor, who believes floods are God's punishment, flees flooded home (BBC).

Conservative Louisiana flood victims are suddenly silent about big government (Modern Liberals).


Christian Activist: Mother was justified in killing her daughters since they dated "black guys" (The Intellectualist).



MORE FINANCIAL SHENANIGANS WITH DALLAS PENSIONS

Dallas cops' pension fund nears insolvency in wake of shady real estate deals, FBI raid (Zero Hedge).

Top administrator exits Dallas police and fire pension fund (Dallas Morning News).



MISCELLANEOUS

Now this is a surprise ... "The NRA's favorite gun 'academic' is a fraud" (Think Progress).

Comedian BK Irons goes off on Donald Trump in a hilarious way ... Fair warning, language spots make this PG13  (YouTube). 


Fast-growing corporate evils that should be media issue ... and campaign issues (Buzz Flash).


More than six decades ago, Woodie Guthrie took on the racist real estate practices of Donald Trump's father (Buzz Flash).


- Mark

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