Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
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Links 12/16/2021
Omicron: Fog of Information and Definitions
More Omicron updates and musings.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Is the U$A a Democracy?
Thomas Ferguson, a top expert on money and politics, weighs in on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands.
Read more...Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge
Vignettes on how care gets compromised as hospitals start to be overwhelmed.
Read more...Being Rich Does Not Make You More Generous. It Makes You Meaner.
Why relying on the kindness of strangers, particularly rich ones, is not such a hot idea.
Read more...‘If We Want to Tackle Climate Change, We Want Them to Go Bankrupt … Right?’
Yes, Biden is sabotaging the climate, just like the other guy…but that’s not why Saule Omarova nomination as Controller of the Currency failed
Read more...The US Doesn’t Have Enough Faculty To Train the Next Generation of Nurses
Nurses’ ranks were being hollowed out even before Covid due to not instructing enough to fill rising needs. That shortfall getting worse.
Read more...Cornell Goes Code Red, Cancels Most Campus Activities During Covid Spike with “Very High Percentage” Omicron in Fully Vaxxed
The Cornell “Alert Level Red” with “very substantial” Omicron cases among the fully vaxxed and boosted confirms Omicron’s contagiousness.
Read more...Links 12/14/2021
Omicron Cases Serious in Denmark and Overall Morbidity Picture Not Pretty Either
The Omicron news hasn’t gotten cheerier.
Read more...Oil & Gas Investors Are Underestimating This Systemic Risk: Plugging Costs
An issue to keep in mind as fossil fuel demand declines: plugging costs can no longer be kicked down the road.
Read more...Culture Wars: Identity Politics and the Fight Against Surveillance Capitalism
Why identity politics is just another face of neoliberalism.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: How the Democrats Lost Flyover
The Democrats shafted flyover and flyover is returning the favor.
Read more...Share Buybacks Surge to Record Ahead of Potential 1% Tax: Companies Buy as Insiders Dump like there’s No Tomorrow
Buy High, Don’t Buy Low. Prices are sky-high and but company buybacks are red hot.
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