Harmoniously Denied: The Wider Implications of China’s Censorship on COVID-19
How China’s Covid-19 censorship illustrates how Chinese citizens have internalized what were once top-down controls.
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Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March
Keeping tabs on Fed munificence.
Read more...More Public Pension Fund Pain: LACERS Reports Hit to Liquidity from Private Equity Capital Calls; Are Fund Managers Exploiting the Dumb Money Yet Again?
Private equity firms are sucking cash out of their limited partners at the worst possible time, exposing public pension funds in particular to liquidity crunches and fire sales.
Read more...Water Should Be a Public Good, Not a Commodity. Catalonia Is Showing How
The Terrassa Water Observatory puts citizens in the driver’s seat of water management.
Read more...Is the Tara Reade Story Approaching Critical Mass?
Biden is feeling enough heat about the Tara Reade rape accusation that he’s appearing on Morning Joe today. But can he make the story go away?
Read more...Unemployment Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders
Why ending the lockdowns won’t do all that much to lower unemployment.
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The Price of Meat
Meat and the rights of meatpackers have come to the fore.
Read more...Finance Capitalism vs Industrial Capitalism: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Are Destroying Us
Another Michael Hudson star turn on debt dynamics, this time focusing on the coronavirus bailouts are shoring up rentiers.
Read more...Covid-19, The Coming Developing Country Debt Crisis and The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal
Even the IMF backs the new debt put forward by Argentina. Could it be a model for Covid-shocked emerging economies?
Read more...Schadenfraude Alert: Airbnb Mini-Moguls in Meltdown as Bookings Collapse
Once fat and happy Airbnb landlords are now in a world of hurt.
Read more...Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same
An overview of the dislocations in the oil market.
Read more...Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress
How hopes for coronavirus tests are ahead of the state of play.
Read more...Quarantine Cat Tricks
Cat intermission.
Read more...Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.
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