Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections for Migratory Birds, Drawing Bipartisan Condemnation
Team Trump cuts environmental protections yet again, this time at the expense of migratory birds.
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Trend Reversal of Old-Age Labour Force Participation in Germany
Why has workforce participation increased among older age groups in Germany? Follow the money.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...Links 1/26/18
Latest Tory Brexit Row: Another Bun Fight or a Cage Match?
More Brexit hissing and spitting from the Tories.
Read more...Mastercard Pushes Biometrics, Banks Follow
Mastercard and other financial services providers are aggressively promoting biometrics. Where are the vaunted EU privacy regulators?
Read more...Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.
Read more...A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Read more...Links 1/25/18
Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids
More grifting, Amazon-style.
Read more...Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs
How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Read more...Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit
On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.
Read more...More on the Opiate Abuse Epidemic: Where Again Does the Finger Point?
Debunking some pet conservative myths about the opiate crisis.
Read more...Dear Elon: Tesla’s Base Is Not the Model S Coalition
How Elon Musk is doing a great job of alienation a critically important part of Tesla’s Model S coalition.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
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