Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Read more...Links 12/20/2020
Wolf Richter: Who Holds the $1.65 Trillion of Apartment Building Debt amid Eviction Bans and Plunging Occupancy Rates at High Rises?
How much apartment building debt is there, and who holds it?
Read more...Links 12/19/2020
How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
Read more...We Are Fourteen Years Old
Fourteen years old and (hopefully) still making lots of trouble!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2020
Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...Links 12/18/2020
Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Read more...Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
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