Medicare’s Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers
Seniors be warned: This Medicare open enrollment season is setting up to be more treacherous than ever.
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3 Ways Congress Could Hold Facebook Accountable for Its Actions
Zuckerberg benefits from the lack of consensus on what to do about Facebook.
Read more...Bravo! Hit Third Fundraiser Target, Well on Our Way to the Fourth: Guest Bloggers
Dig deep to help meet our fourth target: rewarding Lambert, Jerri-Lynn, and Nick.
Read more...McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid
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Read more...Naked Capitalism: Your No-Bullshit, Prescient Answer to Journalism of Attachment
How Naked Capitalism and its well- informed commentariat run rings around the legacy media.
Read more...General Electric Breaks Up, Symbolizing Decline of American Manufacturing and the High Price of Financialization
How stock price fixated management and a big expansion into financial services under Jack Welch did in the once-esteemed General Electric.
Read more...‘This Must Not Happen’: If Unhalted, Permian Basin Fracking Will Unleash 40 Billion Tons of CO2 by 2050
Climate change activists have new oil and gas wells in their crosshairs, starting with the potential carbon bomb of the Permian Basin.
Read more...Why the California Shipping Bottleneck Reflects a Threat to U.S. Security
The intensifying supply chain crisis should be a wake up call to US leaders about how dependence on imports hurts our security. But no….
Read more...Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap
How Medicare enrollees are kept ignorant about important options.
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IM Doc: Naked Capitalism – Fierce and Independent Thinking in the Age of Covid
I feel compelled to speak for those in medicine like my mentors. I am eternally grateful to Nakd Capitalism for allowing me to speak freely.
Read more...Latest Fed Financial Stability Report Underplays Supply Chain Risk
The financial press overhyped the latest Fed stabilty report’s comments on China, and ignored the near total absence of supply chain woes.
Read more...Carbon Tax Over-Rated
A carbon tax is an idea that has been around yet never deployed despite potential benefits because reasons, such as hurting the poor.
Read more...Yipee! Met Our Second Target Quickly! On to the Third: Continuing Expanded News Coverage and Maybe Meetups
Thanks to the generosity of our readers, we are on to our third target: preserving our Covid-expanded news coverage plus perhaps meetups.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Eight: Uber Still Unprofitable, But Reduces Losses by Squeezing Drivers and Restaurants
The latest update: the financial media continues to parrot management falsehoods about Uber results and there is still no path to profit.
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