• EU blacklist names 17 tax havens and puts Caymans and Jersey on notice (The Guardian) A large percentage of finance is money laundering.  Even more so for the City of London, for whom places like the Caymans and Jersey are go to locations.
• Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance (Bloomberg) Collecting on phony debt.
• Scientists are trying to figure out which bacteria have colonized our space station (Popular Science) Interesting, if a bit squicky.
• Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media. (Columbia Journalism Review) “We believe that fixing the information ecosystem is at least as much about improving the real news as it about stopping the fake stuff.”
• Emergency rooms are monopolies. Patients pay the price. (Vox) Why and how ER’s cost so much.
• Harold Ford Jr. Fired by Morgan Stanley Over Inappropriate ‘Conduct’ (New York Times) He was once considered a Democratic Party rising star, because he was a corporate Democrat. 
• Daisy Ridley is right to quit social media. Actors should be seen and not followed (The Guardian ) Good advice for public figures.
• The Year of the Headless Liberal Chicken (CounterPunch) A primer on the current mania among the mainstream political “left”.
• ‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. Just one problem: It didn’t exist (Washington Post) I am not sure if this is just an exquisite prank, or something deeper.  In either case, it is magnificent.

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