Wealth Club

Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder Quanta (David L)

The world’s happiest countries REVEALED: Finland comes top while South Sudan is the bleakest Daily Mail

Study shows IPCC is underselling climate change PhyOrg (David L)

New Climate Change Visualization Presents Two Stark Choices For Our Future Earther (David L)

Britain Will Have Water Shortages In 25 Years Thanks to Climate Change, Environment Chief Says Motherboard (resilc)

Four Wikipedias To ‘Black Out’ Over EU Copyright Directive WikiMedia Foundation

Kentucky governor says he exposed his children to chickenpox NBC (Kevin W)

Satellites just photographed California’s dazzling ‘super bloom’ of spring flowers from outer space Business Insider (David L)

San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known BBC

Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own NPR (David L)

China?

Trump Says Tariffs Will Stay Until China Complies With Deal Bloomberg

Brexit

Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. Petitions, UK Government and Parliament. Includes a map.

The UK will have very little control over trade tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit Independent

Syraqistan

WaPo Gives Campaign Space To Main Sponsor Of ISIS Who Also Jails More Journalists Than Anyone Else Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)

Exclusive: How Iran fuel oil exports beat U.S. sanctions in tanker odyssey to Asia Reuter. Resilc:

Rules for USA USA to learn:

1. You can never beat guys in sandals with AK 47s
2. Iranians have been traders in hostile territory for a couple of thousand years

US exit from Afghanistan could spark wider conflict Asia Times

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

Volvo To Add In-Car Sensors To Prevent Drunk Driving Reuters

Porn and the state: when size really does matter 1828 (guurst)

Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte Intercept

The Marines Are Test-Flying Their Plywood Drone Popular Mechanics (resilc)

Imperial Collapse Watch

16 years ago today Axios (resilc)

Why America Needs a Stronger Defense Industry New York Times (resilc)

Trump Transition

Donald Trump is using Stalinist tactics to discredit climate science Guardian (Tom H)

US judge halts hundreds of drilling projects in groundbreaking climate change ruling Guardian (J-LS)

Oil and gas leasing rejected in Wyoming because, well, climate change Grist

2020

In early campaigning, 2020 Democrats try out tactics for taking on Trump Reuters (resilc). How about, as Lambert might say, starting out by not sucking???

Joe Biden Faces the Unthinkable: Can He Not Keep Up with Bernie? Vanity Fair (resilc)

Bernie Hires Former Hillary Staffer As Research Chief New York Magazine (resilc)

Is Betomania Real or Phony? New York Times

Elizabeth Warren town hall: how the US could end the Electoral College Vox

‘We shouldn’t be inviting bullies to our neighbourhood’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends her criticism of Amazon HQ2 in surprise Queens appearance Business Insider (Kevin W). Not wild about the framing. I should have written about this, but IMHO the issue was affordable housing in Queens. I would have had way less trouble with this deal if it had been in Hudson Yards. In Silicon Valley, cities are having trouble staffing schools and hospitals due to housing costs. Second issue is that it’s normal in NYC development deals for the locals to squawk and the developer to have to give sweeteners. But Amazon just picked up and left.

Minn. lawmakers aim to reduce salt runoff from sidewalks Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Chuck L)

AT&T CEO interrupted by a robocall during a live interview The Verge (resilc)

State AGs put tech giants on notice: ‘Something must be done with these companies … they have become too big’ Business Insider (David L)

MMT

Is MMT “America First” Economics? Institute for New Economic Thinking. Depressing. One word response: “Japan”.

Wolfers Blames MMT for Orthodox Economists’ Ignorance of MMT Bill Black, New Economic Perspectives

Powell Signals Prolonged Fed Pause as Inflation Lags, Risks Loom Bloomberg

Monsanto risk takes root with Bayer investors Financial Times (J-LS)

No More Fed Rate Hikes in 2019… Econospeak. Click through to see the chart.

What FedEx Just Said About Europe and China Wolf Richter

Class Warfare

In 24 States, 50% or More of Babies Born on Medicaid; New Mexico Leads Nation With 72% CSNNews (resilc)

It just became easier for employers to dump retirees’ pensions CNN (Paul R)

Uber drivers demand their data Economist (David L). This could be fun. Users could demand data too….

New Futurist Fear: “Economic Singularity” Could Kill Jobs Forever Futurism (David L)

Meritocracy doesn’t exist, and believing it does is bad for you Slate

Antidote du jour (Kimberly R):

And a bonus (Richard Smith):

A mouse has been captured tidying up bits and bobs in a pensioner's shed.

Stephen McKears from Gloucestershire says he couldn't understand how small metal items were returning to their box every night.

So he set up a special night-time camera to find out � � pic.twitter.com/Gn1gvhTown

— ITV News Central (@ITVCentral) March 19, 2019

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