I think today’s collection of Bits & Briefs is really worth reading.

• I call it “Surveillance consumerism”: What do consumers want? Learn their lives through their selfies and make them pay

• The Privatization of Hope: the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity – by  Prof. Ronald Aronson. An excellent article!

• Public spending vs. Money creation: How FDR helped draw a boundary between Fiscal and Monetary policies at the time of the New Deal – by Prof. Jakob Feinig

• “What are you majoring in at college?” – “Philosophy”, I replied. He asked: “What are you going to do with that?” – “Think”

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