SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Ever So Politely, Signals Intent to Cut Private Equity Grifting Way Back
SEC chair Gary Gensler puts private equity in his crosshairs. Will he fire?
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On the Duty to Obstruct
A recap of the progressive punt on the Build Back Better bill and the contention that duty demands much more radical action.
Read more...Magical Thinking on Fertilizer and Climate Change
Fertilizer as the centerpiece of “climate-stupid agriculture.”
Read more...The Climate Fight Over Line 5, or the Upper Peninsula and Canada Versus Greenhouse Gas Absolutism
The fight over shutting down Line 5, a major oil pipeline, could set an important precedent.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...Links 11/9/2021
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.
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