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recent bookmarks from jmLong Covid now major cause of long-term job absence, say quarter of UK employers | Financial Times2022-03-11T11:28:20+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/33444f29-bab1-4655-85b5-c0b1f68d9653
jmA quarter of UK employers say long Covid is now one of the main causes of long-term sickness absence among their staff, according to research that suggests the debilitating condition could be exacerbating labour shortages that are plaguing many parts of the economy. A survey of 804 organisations, representing more than 4.3m employees, found that one in four put it among the top three reasons for long-term absence, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said on Tuesday, while half had staff who had suffered from long Covid in the past 12 months.
]]>long-covid future uk disabilities covid-19 health economyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7a4b2e97b40e/Why America Became Numb to COVID Deaths - The Atlantic2022-03-09T12:11:43+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/covid-us-death-rate/626972/
jmcovid-19 ed-yong us-politics death disease medicine public-health pandemics economy capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4b8143d6904b/The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism2022-01-06T10:11:56+00:00
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-ticking-bomb-of-crypto-fascism
jmCrypto, a portfolio of inherently worthless online tokens, is already sustained almost entirely by myth. Its value proposition is so inscrutable that when it melts down, almost any narrative could be crafted to plausibly explain it. It was the Fed! The government! The leftists who hate entrepreneurialism! It was the dark and devious forces of the shadowy deep state! Anything will do. It will enforce the priors of those who placed their faith in crypto as a good substitute for the American dream — a crowd of Barstool Sports readers and tech libertarians and the types of people who used to buy silver bars from Alex Jones before they turned to Bitcoin. The crypto-evangelist population skews heavily towards a sort of New Age libertarian, anti-government right wing-ism, and when they see their financial dreams evaporate, they will likely set their sights for revenge on the things they already despise.
]]>america crypto cryptocurrency fascism grim-meathook-future future economyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4573425df908/The Climate Case for a Jobs Guarantee2020-06-09T13:56:05+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-06-05/the-climate-case-for-a-jobs-guarantee-kim-stanley-robinson
jmIt would mean that governments would set a higher minimum wage than ever before, and if that minimum were a true living wage, private enterprise would have to match it to attract workers. And then, suddenly, everyone would be both employed and making a decent living. Private enterprises would therefore have more prosperous customers, and all would then rise in a virtuous cycle. Given the immense stresses that climate change is sure to bring, finding useful work for people would not be a problem. There will be a lot to do. Recall that 5% unemployment is often said to be the “natural” level, such that markets get nervous when the jobless rate goes lower than that. Unemployment at 5% is said to create “wage pressure,” which it definitely does, because millions of people are thereby living in fear and will take any job they can get, even ones that don’t pay enough for a secure life. The phrase “wage pressure” is yet another indication of how markets exert power to keep power. In this context, a Job Guarantee would erase wage pressure (meaning fear and misery), and the less fearful and more productive populace that resulted might thrive in a feeling of security.
]]>jobs work unemployment economics economy qe future ksr scifi climate-changehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d5ce481f6463/The Airplane Seating Arrangement that Triggers 'Air Rage'2016-05-03T13:29:15+00:00
http://gizmodo.com/the-airplane-seating-arrangement-that-triggers-air-rage-1774254543
jm
As lead researcher Katherine DeCelles explained to Gizmodo, airplanes are like a miniature version of class-based society. “It’s a small world of the greater society that we live in, though one that’s greatly concentrated,” she said. Traveling by plane is stressful enough, but DeCelles believes that seating inequality on airplanes often serves as “the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” and that air rage can be partly explained and understood through the lens of social inequality.
]]>air-rage first-class flying air travel anger economyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:484d2f39eddc/Senior Anglo bondholders revealed in department note2015-11-28T13:50:40+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/senior-anglo-bondholders-revealed-in-department-note-1.2446809
jmAmong the major holders were a Dutch pension fund, ABP; another Dutch fund, PGGM; LGPI in Finland, which manages local government pensions; and a Swiss public entities pension. A number of major asset managers were also named, including JP Morgan in London; DeKA and ADIG, two German investment managers; and Robeco from the Netherlands. Big insurance companies, including Munich Re, Llmarinen from Finland and German giant Axa were also named, along with big banks such as BNP, SocGen, ING and Deutsche.
]]>bondholders anglo economy ireland politics eu senior-bondholdershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51119ed386f1/Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer2014-12-27T23:34:13+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/airlines-want-you-to-suffer
jmtravel airlines pricing fees economy consumer jetbluehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ddb2a5b57b4c/Uber Optics2014-10-01T08:30:06+00:00
http://www.theawl.com/2014/09/uber-optics
jmThat the company's consistent, nearly frozen posture of disingenuous smirking means that the most perceptible "Uber problem" is almost always how it frames things, rather than how it actually operates, whether it's systematically sabotaging of competitors or using its quarter-billion-dollar war chest to relentlessly cut fares and driver pay to unsustainable levels in order to undercut existing transit systems, is remarkable in its way, though. If your company's trying to conquer the world, in the end, being a dick might be the best PR strategy of all.
]]>uber dicks dystopia grim-meathook-future teachers california free-markets optics pr economy americahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fdfe2cae5f2a/From derelict to delightful: Art Tunnel Smithfield2013-08-14T10:24:55+00:00
http://stoneybatterblog.com/blog/2013/8/14/from-derelict-to-delightful-art-tunnel-smithfield
jmsmithfield d7 dublin ireland art art-tunnel reclamation derelict economy dcchttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:faf88c07cde7/Soviets map America2013-08-13T23:28:11+00:00
http://burritojustice.com/2013/08/12/soviets-map-america/
jmcold-war ussr usa mapping maps soviet economy memorabiliahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:265589d91dbc/Austerity policies founded on Excel typo2013-04-16T17:03:25+00:00
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/16/reinhart_rogoff_coding_error_austerity_policies_founded_on_bad_coding.html
jmYou've probably heard that countries with a high debt:GDP ratio suffer from slow economic growth. The specific number 90 percent has been invoked frequently. That's all thanks to a study conducted by Carmen Reinhardt and Kenneth Rogoff for their book This Time It's Different. But the results have been difficult for other researchers to replicate. Now three scholars at the University of Massachusetts have done so in "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff" and they find that the Reinhart/Rogoff result is based on opportunistic exclusion of Commonwealth data in the late-1940s, a debatable premise about how to weight the data, and most of all a sloppy Excel coding error.
Read Mike Konczal for the whole rundown, but I'll just focus on the spreadsheet part. At one point they set cell L51 equal to AVERAGE(L30:L44) when the correct procuedure was AVERAGE(L30:L49). By typing wrong, they accidentally left Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Austria, and Australia out of the average. When you run the math correctly "the average real GDP growth rate for countries carrying a public debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent is actually 2.2 percent, not -0.1 percent."
]]>austerity politics excel coding errors bugs spreadsheets economics economyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b2ded17573ca/Former IMF chief of mission to Ireland says not burning the bondholders was "a mistake"2013-04-11T15:59:03+00:00
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/04/11/why-ajai-chopras-sad-eyed-friend-was-so-sad/
jmFormer IMF chief of mission to Ireland, Ashoka Mody, above left with Ajai Chopra in 2010. Melancholy of eye and large of loafer, Ashoka was involved in negotiating Ireland’s EU/IMF bailout. [...] This morning Ashok gave an interview to Gavin Jennings on Morning Ireland, in which he admitted Ireland’s bailout was riddled with mistakes, namely the non-burning of the senior bondholders and the program of austerity.
Jennings: “So, if imposing austerity on Ireland was wrong, or a mistake; if not allowing any burning of bondholders, whether official, sovereign or private was a mistake; you were centrally involved in that program. I know Ajai Chopra was very much the public face of the IMF mission to Ireland. But you were centrally involved in constructing this bailout. How much responsibility do you take for those errors.”
Mody: “Yes, so, obviously, I have to take the responsibility in…but I’m in very good company in taking responsibility in this. There were many parties involved. And my role really was to bring such matters to the attention of people who finally made these decisions.”
Great.]]>bondholders imf ireland economy default ajai-chopra ashoka-modyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a88316f78aff/Karl Whelan: Promissory Note “Deal”: Not What Had Been, Em, Promised2012-03-30T15:09:25+00:00
http://karlwhelan.com/blog/?p=254
jmireland economy bailout ecb eu euro anglohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0da0d962d08d/Stats from an Irish guy's EV driving2012-03-22T17:34:09+00:00
http://selfficiency.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/results-are-in/
jmev cars driving nissan economy ireland fuel priceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:244914647e05/Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis on Ireland's economic collapse2011-02-02T14:55:23+00:00
http://bit.ly/ga9RL9
jmmichael-lewis vanity-fair articles pdf toread economy ireland disaster collapsehttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b4dfaa71d629/Bondholders safe even if opposition win election - European, Business - Independent.ie2010-12-09T21:14:27+00:00
http://www.independent.ie/business/european/bondholders-safe-even-if-opposition-win-election-2454031.html
jm
In a private phone call this week with hedge funds and other investors from across Europe, the EU team which negotiated Ireland's rescue package, reassured the firms that senior bondholders cannot be burned as part of the €85bn rescue package, even if Fine Gael and Labour seek to reopen the question.' Argh! this makes me so angry]]>bondholders ireland economy bailout scamshttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ff0b2c6d55f4/Eric Cantona's call for a bank run2010-12-06T12:34:27+00:00
http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/%e2%80%9cno-weapon-no-blood-or-anything-like-that%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-eric-cantona-ideating-on-what-a-revolution-to-bring-down-the-banks-might-look-like-tomorrow-we-might-see/
jmireland france banking bank-runs economy bailout eric-cantonahttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dad06d230564/Here are the Anglo Irish Bank Bondholders | Newswhip2010-12-05T23:44:09+00:00
http://newswhip.ie/national-2/here-are-the-anglo-irish-bank-bondholders
jmvampire-squid anglo bondholders bailout ireland economyhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:53d4f1bf0b66/Bailout will sink Ireland before we can even swim | David McWilliams2010-12-03T14:02:24+00:00
http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2010/12/01/bailout-will-sink-ireland-before-we-can-even-swim
jmdavid-mcwilliams economy ireland bailout euhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:be7fbceadadf/Barry Eichengreen on the Irish bailout2010-12-01T11:21:11+00:00
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/12/01/barry-eichengreen-on-the-irish-bailout/#comment-101577
jmireland economy bailout eu eurohttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7e17766a76a0/Video: Robots Explain The Irish Economic Crisis2010-12-01T11:15:27+00:00
http://newswhip.ie/national-2/video-robots-explain-the-irish-economic-crisis
jmnews ireland robots youtube debt eu politics economyhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9d89b10a2ee9/Your Country, Your Call, You’re Doomed2010-09-07T08:49:15+00:00
http://bocktherobber.com/2010/09/your-country-your-call-youre-doomed
jmycyc waffle business ireland vision-lock integrity bock-the-robber economyhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e60c9e965a87/Excellent animated treemap dataviz2009-09-22T18:12:10+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/12/business/financial-markets-graphic.html
jmdata dataviz visualization economy animation nyt infographic infographics treemap design flash banking nytimes bailouthttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e5875b46f41b/The Irish Economy blog2009-08-13T11:39:31+00:00
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/
jmeconomy karl-whelan ireland nama politics property bankinghttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9d70665b7068/UCD Economist Karl Whelan pours cold water on the Irish Government's NAMA plans2009-08-13T11:38:43+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0813/1224252497177.html
jmnama ireland economy banking property liam-carroll zoe accbank karl-whelanhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c75dd283c1c1/