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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under its Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), decided that ownership of the debian.community domain should be transferred to the Debian Project.

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Bereavement is bad enough, without a predatory phone company refusing to cancel a dead person’s account. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th July 2022 It’s sometimes called “sadmin”: tying up the affairs of someone who has passed away. There’s a lot to do, though some aspects have become easier – you can notify […]

"Irrespective of whichever side you may have family or friends on, there are innocent lives that are being used as pawns in a very vicious game."

Firms with fewer than 50 employees at the onset of the pandemic had a relatively greater increase in job separations than firms with 1,000 or more workers.

Maybe my GP is right. I might be worrying too much. I shouldn’t follow the news so closely.

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What Do We Owe Afghanistan? Nathan J. Robinson & Noam Chomsky August 3, 2022. Current Affairs. “The oppressed people of afghanistan will know the generosity of america and our allies.” — George W. Bush, Oct. 7, 2001  The 9/11 attacks could have been dealt with as a crime. This would have been sane and consistent with precedent. […]

Why are we incentivizing wealth at the expense of health?

The Emergency Capital Investment Program is the largest ever targeted to community development lenders to help in their support of under-resourced communities.

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Jul 19, 2022 ROBERT SKIDELSKY Although words like “unprincipled,” “amoral,” and “serial liar” seem to describe the outgoing British prime minister accurately, they accurately describe more successful political leaders as well. To explain Johnson’s fall, we need to consider two factors specific to our times. LONDON – Nearly all political careers end in failure, but Boris … Continue reading Boris Johnson’s Fall – and Ours

Today’s blog post highlights some of the research the St. Louis Fed has recently produced.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are important financial actors that control over $3.5 trillion in gross assets and over 500,000 properties in the U.S. Yet they have been largely ignored because tax rules define them as ‘passive investors.’ They exist as tax “pass through” entities and pay no corporate taxes if they invest at least 75 percent of their assets in real estate, derive 75 percent of their gross income from real property, and pay out at least 90 percent of taxable income (excluding capital gains) as shareholder dividends each year.

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The recent bout of inflation will immediately reduce the real value of existing debts, but it will also tend to raise expected inflation. This could raise future borrowing costs.

It is not socialism that explains capitalism, argues Max Weber, it is rather capitalism that explains socialism. And as long as capitalism exists, socialist aspirations will persist: “What characterises our current situation is firstly the fact that the private sector of the economy in conjunction with private bureaucratic organisation and hence with the separation of the worker […]

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Like me, Leslie Cannold is deeply grateful for Liz Chaney right now — you know, the way she’s speaking truth to fruitcakery. Liz Cheney is my hero. On positions of policy, I disagree with her almost 100% of the time, … Continue reading →

As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy. Naming China as Continue Reading

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