Yearly Archives: 2020

We Found and Tested 47 Old Drugs That Might Treat the Coronavirus: Results Show Promising Leads and a Whole New Way to Fight COVID-19

Yves here. It is disturbing to watch the push to con the public into seeing remdesivir as the only promising treatment for coronavirus. Please circulate this post widely to inform people you know that established, lower cost drugs also show promise. By Nevan Krogan, Professor and Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute & Senior Investigator at […]

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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 states, ship owners on globalization, Festival of Biden v Tara Reade, Sanders organizers, Trump polling, Russiagate, third party, “sclerotic America,” manufacturing, rail, construction, recession, Amazon, Grubhub, May Day, Raspberry Pi, trust issues

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More Public Pension Fund Pain: LACERS Reports Hit to Liquidity from Private Equity Capital Calls; Are Fund Managers Exploiting the Dumb Money Yet Again?

Private equity firms are sucking cash out of their limited partners at the worst possible time, exposing public pension funds in particular to liquidity crunches and fire sales.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, another household debacle caused me to get a late start. Worse, the echoes are still reverberating. So I’ve put out a skeletal version with an item in every bucket, and I will update on a rolling basis. Sorry! –lambert UPDATE All done! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added […]

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Finance Capitalism vs Industrial Capitalism: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Are Destroying Us

Another Michael Hudson star turn on debt dynamics, this time focusing on the coronavirus bailouts are shoring up rentiers.

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Looking at “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for COVID-19” with a Critical Eye

Can venture capitalists, private equity, Republican fixers, biomedical serial entrepreneurs, and scientists from two medical institutes deliver a #COVID19 solution that involves mass certification via a cellphone app, and a new hybrid form of governance, an “empowered council”?

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