Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
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The “gig economy” has been hailed as a major disruption to the American workforce, as sites like Uber, Airbnb and Etsy offer workers new ways to make money and work a flexible schedule. But a new report offers a stark reminder that it’s not likely to replace the full-time job anytime soon. In a report released Monday, the JPMorgan…
The inside story of how England’s oldest university picks its students, and why it needs to change The opening scene of the latest Abba jukebox musical, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, is set in one of Oxford University’s ancient panelled dining halls. Lily James is, in flashback, the young Donna, graduating from New College (founded…
Once a year or so, the economist Diane Swonk ventures into the basement of her 1891 Victorian house outside Chicago and opens a plastic box containing the items that mean the most to her: awards, wedding pictures, the clothes she was wearing at the World Trade Center on the day it was attacked. But what…
.entry-header Scene: the perfect vacation experience, fueled by rented products. Go on vacation and you’ll undoubtedly encounter at least one couple who snaps photos of their perfectly manicured brunch experience. They took an Uber to get to the general area, asking the driver to play their favorite Spotify playlist for the 17 minute drive. Rather than walk the final…
react-text: 97 At first, it seemed funny. /react-text react-text: 99 “Temper tantrum” was how I described his behavior to my friends. Michael* would raise his voice at me, then flounce out of the room in a huff. At first his outbursts seemed innocuous, if unprofessional: Can you /react-text react-text: 101 believe /react-text react-text: 102 he…
In the past two decades there has been a sharp drop in the share of national income going to working- and middle-class Americans. As the discontent among these workers begins to affect their livelihoods and the entire nation’s politics, policy makers must either hope the market will somehow fix wage stagnation or enact policies to…
In an ultra-rich-person moment at his latest forever-campaign rally in Tampa on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed you need photo ID to buy groceries in this country as part of a meandering argument for voter ID laws. Trump started by telling his crowd, where conspiracy theorists and Jim Acosta haters were unsurprisingly well represented, that…
In the ballroom of the Hyatt hotel in Sarasota, Florida, the head of the UK’s most influential think tank made an urgent plea for donations for a new international trade unit he was establishing in London. The top priority of the Institute of Economic Affairs’ (IEA) trade unit would be to push for a sweeping,…
The Institute of Economic Affairs is facing two official investigations after it emerged that the thinktank offered potential US donors access to UK government ministers as it raised cash for research to promote free-trade deals demanded by hardline Brexiters. The Charity Commission announced on Monday that it had opened a regulatory compliance case into the…