Exclusive: Countries To Face a ‘Wave’ of Corporate Lawsuits Challenging Emergency COVID-19 Measures
Will Covid-19 trigger reprehensible investor-state dispute settlement suits?
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The Lockdown Protestors Are Not Working Class
Contesting the messaging about lockdown protests.
Read more...How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Eurozone
Without an agreed set of rules, the eurozone cannot be sustained. Ironically, as the EU’s biggest creditor, Germany stands to lose the most from its court’s ruling.
Read more...Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding
Neglecting facilities that serve Medicaid patients in the Covid-19 rescues puts health infrastructure for the poor at risk of collapse.
Read more...Brexit: Yet More Chicken
The same bad Brexit dynamics are very much in place.
Read more...The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
The inescapable dilemma facing social democracy
Read more...Links 5/16/2020
Because Culture Matters, There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdowns
Quelle surprise! Local norms play a meaningful role in Covid-19 transmission, which has implications for how to end lockdowns.
Read more...Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Parsing some US coronavirus data.
Read more...Wall Street’s Useful Idiot: Financial Times Shills for CLOs….as Fed Hasn’t Bailed Them Out
A major story on the CLOs chooses not to address the key questions.
Read more...Reminder: When the Very Very Rich Are Done With Us, They Plan to Leave Us Behind
More evidence, as if you needed it, that the super rich are not your friends.
Read more...Reopening Isn’t Reopening—It’s Cutting Off Unemployment
In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
Read more...Public Pension Plans in a World of Hurt; Even Loyalists Warning of Grim Prospects
Not surprisingly, public pension fund economics look pretty sick.
Read more...Congress and Corporations Join Forces To Crush American Small Business
Funny how that small business bailout worked…..
Read more...Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
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