As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
Biden still wants to ramp up contact tracing. But will it really do much good in the US?
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The Dangers of Sustainability Metrics
A favorite topic: the downside of fetishinzing metrics.
Read more...Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality
Monetary policy does not lift boats in at all the same way.
Read more...Criminal Tax Cheat Robert Smith of Private Equity Firm Vista Gets a Pass for Conduct Worse Than Apollo’s Leon Black, Now in Epstein Doghouse
Neil Weinberg and David Voreacos published an in-depth account at Bloomberg of how private equity baron Roger Smith escaped being indicted for criminal tax fraud despite having concealed over $200 million in income. The very short version is that Smith and his allies got to Attorney General William Barr, both through Barr’s former firm Kirkland […]
Read more...Is There Really a Problem with Left Wing Extremism in the UK, or Is the Government Seeking Excuses to Suppress Fair Protest?
Governments on both sides of the pond are in “never let a crisis go to waste” mode. Aggression by the right is cause to stomp on a weak left.
Read more...Guantánamo Prisoner to Joe Biden: ‘The Last Two Decades of My Life Have Been a Nightmare Without End’
Guantánamo is a daming example of American lack of concern over the lives it casually ruins.
Read more...Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible for Many Americans
How Big Food increases prices in categories like bread, beer, processed chicken, and packaged salad, and what to do about it.
Read more...Links 2/9/2021
One Year After the Collapse of the Airline Business Began: What’s the Status Now?
Collapsed revenues, astronomical losses, red-hot cash-burn, hellish new debt. Meanwhile, amid craziest markets ever, airline shares soared.
Read more...Intellectual Property Cause of Covid Death, Genocide
Refusal to temporarily suspend several WTO intellectual property provisions to accelerate broad progress against the pandemic is genocide.
Read more...Goldman Is Evil But McKinsey Is Worse
Why the McKinsey veneer is looking tattier and tattier with every passing day, and why that’s not likely to change.
Read more...America, the Unreliable Superpower: Can Biden Shore Up Its Record?
Biden promises to go back to a US superpower old normal that was still a pretty unsettling ride for our allies.
Read more...Links 2/6/2021
Michael Hudson – Changes in Super Imperialism
Michael Hudson recaps his classic Super Imperalism and extends it to the 21st century struggle for dominance among the US, China, and Russia.
Read more...Negative Interest Rates Are Coming, but There Is No Chance That They Will Work
Negative interest rates: a bad idea that some central banks still can’t resist.
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