Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology.
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Brazil’s Catastrophic Management of COVID-19 Threatens the Entire World
Bolosonaro is responsible for Brasil’s botched Covid response. But the consequences extent far beyond the country’s borders.
Read more...Mayberry v. KKR: Pitched Battle as Attorney General and Defendants Try to Block “Tier 3 Plaintiffs” Pursuing Claims Aggressively
The mudslinging! The disingenuous arguments! The clever retorts! The crafty lawyering! Welcome to Mayberry v. KKR, the Tier 3 chapter.
Read more...Resurrected Politically, Lula Goes After Bolsonaro’s ‘Moronic’ Handling of Covid-19 Pandemic
A Brazilian court this week rehabilitated former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, clearing the way for a 2022 presidential bid.
Read more...Unsafe at Any Speed: Don’t Park Your Kia Sportage or Cadenza in the Garage, or Near Your House, for That Matter
For owners of Kia’s Sportage and Cadenza models, unsafe at any speed includes parking the vehicle in the garage.
Read more...‘We Must Deliver on This Issue’: Jayapal Vows to Fight for $15 Minimum Wage
The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair said that despite the Senate failing to include the wage boost in the relief bill, the fight for $15 must go on.
Read more...Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While John Deere Reneges on Promise to U.S. Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available
On March 1, the EU implemented a right to repair for some consumer electrical goods; which U.S. state will wake up and do the same?
Read more...Yes, Export Bans on Vaccines Are a Problem, But Why Is the Supply of Vaccines so Limited in the First Place?
Italy has blocked vaccine exports to Australia, which now must reconsider its opposition to proposed global solutions to unblock supply.
Read more...Pointless Pain Is What We’re Enduring. And All for the Sake of Accepting That Money is Not a Constraint on Our Potential, and Never Will Be
Defitic hysteria, UK style, and why misunderstanding what government money is about persists.
Read more...GOP Voting Rights Act Position Falls Apart in SCOTUS Arguments
The GOP scored an own goal in its Supreme Court arguments on a closely-watched Arizona voting rights case.
Read more...Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems
Why the Biden stimulus program is fundamentally wrongheaded.
Read more...How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times
The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
Read more...The Bullshit Economy: Homebuying “Help”
Introducing “The Bullshit Economy” from Jared Hoist, on products and companies that exist solely to exploit policy failures, in a bad way.
Read more...Recent Judge Rakoff Decision May Curb Private Equity Leverage Abuses By Pinning Liability on Directors of Selling Company
Some of the worst private equity practices, like buyers pulling out more cash at closing than they put in, were targeted by a recent ruling.
Read more...The Oil Industry Is Ready To Fight President Biden In Court
The oil industry is ready to brawl to keep the Biden Administration from halting new Federal energy and mineral leases.
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