Wisconsin made a sucker contract with Foxconn whereby it would pay Foxconn to build a factory there and manufacture displays. Foxconn didn't do that, and has been vague about what if anything it would build in Wisconsin or do there, but it seems to want to get the subsidy anyway.

I have a theory that Foxconn is changing the deal repeatedly in hopes of making the state officials anxious about whether they will get the too-expensive factory (and putative jobs) that Foxconn promised, to make them so desperate for "a deal" that they will pay for nothing but the show of a success.

I advocate a federal law forbidding states and cities from competing to be the site of a company's business.

"Private equity" funds buy companies so as to gouge someone or use a loophole to cheat someone.

Senator Warren has proposed rules that would block the cheating. I don't see that they would block the gouging, though, whether the victims are diabetics or the US government. I suppose an additional change in law is needed for that.

I see this part of a broader destructive pattern in US business, the inclination to strip every asset as fast as possible rather than protect it for continued service. I wonder whether this is generally due to bad rules about corporate governance, reporting and finance.

If I understand this article, the Supreme Court has affirmed an appeals court decision overturning a city law prohibiting sleeping on the sidewalk.

One Labour activist says that Corbyn wasn't nationalist enough to satisfy older voters. "He fundamentally believes British lives are of equal value to the lives of others."

*US Navy bans TikTok from mobile devices saying it's a cybersecurity threat.*

It is, and that is a wise choice, However, lots of apps are threats to your personal data security ‐ and so are Android and iOS themselves. The wisest choice is to reject them all.