Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this WTO ministerial than is generally known.
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The Arm-Wrestle Over Opioids in the Operating Room
Some patients are opting out of opioids for operations. These anesthesiologists insist that’s a bad idea. But are they too dogmatic?
Read more...While You (and We) Were Busy, We Hit 1.75 Million Comments!
Thanks to our dedicated, insightful, and engaged commentariat, and most of all to our comments DJs, Jules and katiebird! We just reached 1,750,000 approved comments (we are now at 1,750,913 to be precise). By contrast, we started posting at the end of 2006. Most days in our first few months, we got no comments at […]
Read more...‘Time to Scrap the Cap’: Sanders, Warren Bill Targets Rich to Expand Social Security
Now, as Sen. Bernie Sanders notes, billionaires pay “the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $147,000 a year.”
Read more...As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows
Researchers and experts are warning about the danger of naturally occurring radiation in LNG to workers and communities in the US and Europe
Read more...The US War in Europe Isn’t Hot Enough – Dropping the Climate Bomb on Russia
Thane Gustafson in Klimat, Russia in the Age of Climate Change, says a lot about Russian energy and metals despite not consulting any experts
Read more...Global Supply Chains Rattled by Winds of War
An analysis of the concentration of key commodities in supply chains shows why the Russia sanctions are having some outsized effects.
Read more...The Tricky Question for Russia of How Far to Go
Why Russia has some tough decisions in the offing.
Read more...Housing Bubble Getting Ready to Pop: Mortgage Applications to Purchase a Home Drop to Lockdown Lows, “Bad Time to Buy” Hits Record amid Sky-High Prices, Spiking Mortgage Rates
The increase in interest rates is finally denting mortgage and housing activity of all sorts.
Read more...How Will American Oligarchs Keep Control?
It’s easy to forget that at the end of the Roman Republic, the Republic did end. Will our oligarchs engineer a similar regime change?
Read more...Primaries Are Getting More Crowded with Candidates, and That’s Good News for Extremists and Bad News for Voters
Mainstream politicians and voters are concerned that extremists are gaining ground. Maybe they should focus on the disease, not the sympoms.
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What Is Really Causing Our Inflation: “Inflation in a Time of Corona and War”
Finally! Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation.
Read more...California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can it Succeed?
The fact that California is having to consider making insulin to get around price grifing show the depth of disease in our health care system.
Read more...Why Saudi Arabia Isn’t Giving Up On Its Russian Oil Alliance
Why Saudi Arabia is still not playing nice with the US.
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