America Needs New Infrastructure to Survive, But Will Biden Deliver?
What will come of Biden’s grand infrastructure plans? And will they be as green as he promised?
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The Climate Crisis, Rationing and Conscription
Has the time come for the brute force approach to combatting climate change of rationing.
Read more...Why Black and Hispanic Small-Business Owners Have Been So Badly Hit in the Pandemic Recession
Another setback for minority communities: their business owners have taken disproportionate hits in the pandemic.
Read more...Links 2/25/2021
Why It’s Good for San Francisco that Rents Dropped 29% to Multiyear Low. But They Haven’t Dropped Nearly Enough Yet
Rents in San Francisco have taken a beating. But they need to fall further.
Read more...Is the Post-COVID Boom Going to Bust?
Reading the tea leaves of the economy after Covid…..assuming an “after Covid”.
Read more...This Obscure Energy Treaty Is the Greatest Threat to the Planet You’ve Never Heard Of
The Energy Charter Treaty lets fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action on climate change. It must be stopped.
Read more...Ilargi: But….Then There’s the [Lithium] Math
EV fans ignores the lack of enough lithium to meet projected sales with current technology. Will the next big thing arrive soon enough?
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses the Economic Winds of [Non] Change Under Biden on Radical Imagination
Michael Hudson looks at Biden and his administration and finds not much to like.
Read more...Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon.
Read more...More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000 Increase in Nursing Home Deaths, 160,000 Life Years Lost Due to Cuts in Care
Private equity greed knows no bounds: their nursing home acquisitions generated a “serious” rise in deaths and fall in other measures of care
Read more...An Ancient Greek Approach to Risk and the Lessons It Can Offer the Modern World
We aren’t all that good at risk assessment.
Read more...Links 2/23/2021
Why Behavioral Economics Needs Behavioral Biology: Avoiding Arms Races
Are behavioral economists really nudging people in the right direction?
Read more...Deathbed Confession: FBI and NYPD Responsible for Malcolm X Assassination
US police forces at a minimum set up the conditions that allowed for Malcolm X to be killed. How far does their culpability extend?
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