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Robert Reich
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Robert Reich's personal blog at robertreich.org covers politics and economics. Since 2010, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “The Share-the-Scraps Economy”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Robert Reich's posts on corporate rent-seeking, finance, trade and US politics, mostly to back up their own points.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Called eloquent and convincing; one commenter says he was right about populist vs establishment politics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Share-the-Scraps Economy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-23
What Hacker News says?
I would have to disagree with that as a blanket statement. Plenty of "successful" businesses use other means besides added value to extract rents from customers. Robert Reich has recently written very eloquently and convincingly about how multi-national corps are using all sorts non-value producing economics to increase bottom lines at our expenses. For example, Americans pay more for pharmaceuticals than do the cit…
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on “Reconsider”Submitted The Great Switch by the Super Rich as a story · 40 points
HN discussion> Boeing’s four largest shareholders" being Vanguard, and State Street means most likely Boeing largest Shareholders are peoples 40K's and IRA's. Meaning everyday middle class American's This doesn't give "everyday middle class Americans" influence on how Boeing operates, and these everyday middle class Americans aren't directing these funds to invest in Boeing -- index funds set some critera for inclusion which is…
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on “Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models”Submitted The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs as a story · 35 points
HN discussionWell, I read the article. It's not that great. Why? Because it's a mix 'n match of quotes, bits and pieces and observations cobbled together to support the thesis that digital technology will disrupt how information - and therefore our thinking about the world - is controlled. It's not that he's factually wrong about what he's saying. Rather, it's that the article lacks any references to a foundational understanding…
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on “Ideas That Changed My Life”Submitted Robert Reich: The Trust Destroyers as a story · 19 points
HN discussionRobert Reich[1] in http://robertreich.org/post/26708840314 : And it would amount to a rip-off of almost cosmic proportion – trillions of dollars that you and I and other average people would otherwise have received or saved on our lending and borrowing that have been going instead to the bankers. It would make the other abuses of trust we’ve witnessed look like child’s play by comparison. Sad to say, there’s reason…
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on “The rotten heart of finance”Submitted The Share-the-Scraps Economy as a story · 14 points
HN discussionMaybe not, but I think it's perfectly fair to have an article that looks into it. Too bad this article fell way short. I would point out: * Software companies, specifically, are more likely to be freeloaders than non-software companies. Tax avoidance schemes such as the Double Irish + Dutch Sandwich allow companies that make revenues primarily from intellectual property laws to skirt US and California taxation[1], a…
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on “Hotel 22: The Dark Side of Silicon Valley”Submitted Robert Reich: Ending the Vicious Cycle of Wealth and Power as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThere's a Robert Reich article from a year ago that predicted this kind of division on issues. He says that the two new sides are "populist" vs "establishment". It looks to me like he was right. http://robertreich.org/post/84984296635 It really explains a lot, like why a lot of people feel so differently about Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders, or Jeb Bush vs. Rand Paul. I think we could say that Sanders and Paul a…
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on “House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal”Submitted UCB's Robert Reich: Apple isn’t the problem. Wall St big banks are the problem. as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> I think I may just have to stop by my local Wal-Mart and take advantage of some of those deals Yeah, that's the spirit. Head on over and contribute to the problem [1][2][3] 1. http://robertreich.org/post/36219730368 2. http://www.thenation.com/blog/171389/worker-group-alleges-wa... 3. http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/support-...
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on “Buy Nothing Day”Submitted Why We’ll Need a Universal Basic Income as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf Robert Reich is correct, the degree of dereliction of duty is horrendous: http://robertreich.org/post/604861772/bp-stands-for-bad-petr... .
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on “BP oil slick”Submitted The Share-the-Scraps Economy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRobert Reich would agree per John Kenneth Galbraith at a higher level of abstraction. Strong, nearly equal-strength parties is better for democracy than a lopsided near-monopoly. "The Disease of American Democracy" 2014 http://robertreich.org/post/95109113190 In an ideal world, a parliamentary/coalition system maybe better because it promotes greater socio-political evolution and forces parties/leaders to put forth…
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on “Trump Picks Staunch Opponents of Net Neutrality to Oversee FCC”Submitted Why Liberal States Won America's Tax Experiment as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRe Glass-Steagall and 2008 crisis, Robert Reich and Elizabeth Warren disagree with you [ https://robertreich.org/post/124114229225 ]. According to you, which legislation prevented the conflict-of-interest in banks writing trillions in subprime mortgages decades prior to 1999? or securities firms selling CDOs backed by subprime MBS? IIUC, the issue in 2008 was never "preventing mortgage CDOs" outright, but preventing…
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on “Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008”Submitted The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted iEverything impoverishes us all as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of the Non-Working Rich as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why It’s Foolish to Weaken the Dollar to Create Jobs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inequality, Productivity, and WhatsApp as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we really shouldn't keep the bush tax cuts for the wealthy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem Isn’t Outsourcing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Principles of the People’s Party as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Truth About China As #2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Put Jobless Young People to Work Cleaning Up BP's Mess and Order BP to Pay as a story · 2 points
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