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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Weekend Readings

In harsh Saudi crackdown, famous feminists are branded as ‘traitors’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-harsh-saudi-crackdown-famous-feminists-are-branded-as-traitors/2018/05/19/b3bc3502-5b63-11e8-9889-07bcc1327f4b_story.html

US- Europe Split

The Economist on Corbynomics and UK Politics

Business School Ideology

Politics and US Fiscal Policy
David Rosenberg notes:
“Some will argue that there are tremendous supply-side elements to the tax package that was passed last year. Pure bunk. It is almost all classic Keynesian-style stimulus. And it’s all being financed by issuing more debt at a time when the structural or “cyclically adjusted” budget deficit already is 3 per cent of GDP. At this stage of the cycle, at full employment, the government should be running a balanced budget or even surpluses − as they do in Germany. Running structural deficits at this level is destabilizing for the financial markets, and I am concerned that there is less discussion on this than there is on how wonderful the earnings season is − which is primarily because of the transitory effects of the tax stimulus”.

Future of Democracy

Politics and the Media

David Frum on the New Political Divide in the US
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