2022-03-22

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The Takeover of America's Legal System

that’s not how the new associates saw Boies’s choice to represent Weinstein. They thought there were certain people you just did not represent—people so hateful and reprehensible that helping them made you complicit. The partners, the old-timers—pretty much everyone over 50—found this unbelievable. That wasn’t the law as they had known it. That wasn’t America. “The idea that guilty people shouldn’t get lawyers attacks the legal system at its root,” Andrew Koppelman, a prominent liberal scholar of constitutional law at Northwestern University, said. “People will ask: ‘How can you represent someone who’s guilty?’ The answer is that a society where accused people don’t get a defense as a matter of course is a society you don’t want to live in. It’s a totalitarian nightmare.”

War, Inflation, Covid – CEOs' Optimism Is Dimming
Desynchronization of Nickel Production and Consumption
Summers on the Fed and whether we can expect inflation to diminish much

Data on vacancies and tightness reinforce the case that such conditions are inflationary, not disinflationary. Wages represent by far the largest component of costs. When they are rising so fast, what basis is there for supposing that inflation will slow to the 2 percent range foreseen by the Fed?

Our democracy is more threatened at home and abroad than at any time in the past 75 years. Rampant populism is a product of inflation and distrust in government. The Fed is outside of politics but not our civic life. It has an obligation to display more intellectual rigor and honest realism than it did this week.
Wage growth for women has outpaced men’s for 6 straight months
Wage increases are not keeping up with inflation

Seven key-developments in the Ukraine Conflict this past Weekend
US Sending Soviet Anti-Air Defense Systems To Ukraine That Were "Secretly Acquired" | ZeroHedge
Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened Today – March-21-2022
Ukraine Post 5: Bits of Information
UKRAINE: Most Shocking News So Far : The Other McCain
So.. what was the deal with them 2wk ago? they didnt work yet? Elon Musk Says Starlink Internet Access Is Ready In Ukraine
Putin's war and the Chaos Climbers - by Noah Smith

So Chaos Climbers on the Right and Left both have some incentive to want Putin to win — or at least for the war to be perceived as a NATO loss. This doesn’t mean they’re ready to cheer for Putin openly, or even to hope for his victory — the blazing moral clarity of the situation is still too strong for that. But it does mean that they feel the need to muddy the waters, to curb U.S. support for Ukraine and make the establishment look irresolute, and to prepare narratives that would allow them to take advantage of a Putin victory.
A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War’s Most Decisive Routs
Starlink helps Ukraine’s elite drone unit target and destroy Russian tanks