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.
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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.
Read more...CalPERS’ Fiduciary Counsel, Ashley Dunning, Lies to Board to Defend Private Equity Secrecy and Perpetuate Inadequate Supervision of Staff
Yet another example of the culture of casual lying at CalPERS and the deep-seated effort to neuter its board.
Read more...Darkest Hour – What Does a Rash of Winston Churchill Portrayals Tell Us About Brexit Britain?
On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twelve: Brad Stone and Bloomberg Continue To Get the Uber Story Badly Wrong
How Brad Stone’s piece about “bad boy” Travis Kalanick is yet another effort to tell the most pro-Uber story possible at this point in time.
Read more...Is the Most Massive, Illegal Paywall in the World About to Come Down?
PACER’s days of massively overcharging and impeding legal research may be about to end.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...Increasing Minimum Wages Does More to Reduce Recidivism Than Prisoner Reentry Programs
Sometimes social engineering is easier than you think, as a new study on income incentives and recidivism shows.
Read more...Another Brexit Casualty: The Channel Tunnel, aka Eurostar
Why the impact of Brexit on Eurostar will literally be a train wreck.
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