Public Pension Plans in a World of Hurt; Even Loyalists Warning of Grim Prospects
Not surprisingly, public pension fund economics look pretty sick.
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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.
Read more...The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results
Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
Read more...A Way To Make COVID-19 College Furloughs More Fair
Looking at how to cope with the college and university funding crisis.
Read more...Testing and the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Looking at state (non) progress on Covid-19.
Read more...US Commercial Real Estate Prices Plunged in April, Mall Prices Collapsed
Looking at the bloodbath in commercial real estate…..and worse is almost certainly in store.
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Coronavirus To Decimate Colleges and Universities
US universities are facing a world of hurt.
Read more...Early Precautions Draw a Life-and-Death Divide Between Flushing and Corona
Why two Queens neighborhoods, Flushing and Corona, had very different Covid-19 outcomes.
Read more...From the Blitz to COVID-19, Our Rulers Have Got Us Wrong
Covid-19 as yet another opporutnity for elite prejudice.
Read more...Coronavirus Magical Thinking, US Style: Contact Tracing Versus Masks
With bad coronavirus outcomes, America seems set on continuing to do dumb things.
Read more...Public Schools Collapsing into a Zoom Heap
The true cost of shuttered schools.
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