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February 4, 2020

Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process | FiveThirtyEight
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"To be even more blunt: the Iowa Democratic Party’s colossal screw-up in reporting results will potentially have direct effects on the outcome of the nomination process. The failure to report results will almost certainly help Biden, assuming that indications that he performed poorly in Iowa are correct, as they won’t get nearly as much media coverage. And they’ll hurt whichever candidate wins the state — mostly likely Sanders or Buttigieg."

Trump’s trickle dries up | Michael Roberts Blog
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Well, Trump’s boast turned to dust in 2019. US GDP grew by 2.3% in 2019, well below President Trump’s promise of 3%+ growth. The most recent GDP number proved that the tax cuts championed by Trump had no sustained impact on US growth. Indeed , even the most optimistic forecasts see growth to stay well below 3% for the next few years. Of course, that won’t stop Trump in his State of the Union speech today in Congress proclaiming a huge rise in the living standards of working people under his reign. Actually, cumulative growth under Trump has been lower than under both Obama and Bush Jnr.

United We Rollback Pensions: Refinery lockout exposes right-wing hypocrisy
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"I will always stand with Saskatchewan and the great people that reside across this great province." Evidently, this statement from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe doesn't include 750 oil refinery workers who have been locked out for nearly two months by Federated Co-operatives

New Research on the Adtech Industry

The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal complaints against six companies in this space.