How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
The latest installment in Mikulka’s excellent series, linking the fracking bust to the decimation of the U.S. oil and gas industry.
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Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been deficient and disorganized, suffering from flaws that plague the U.S. for-profit health care system.
Read more...Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal
Brexit: an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Read more...Larry Summers’ Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic: “Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound”
Larry Summers is at it again.
Read more...Someone Should Ask Biden Cabinet Candidate Ursula Burns If She Supports Child Labor in Africa
Ursula Burns, a candidate for Commerce Secretary, is a director of Nestlé, which defended its use of child labor before the Supreme Court.
Read more...Will Trump Pardon Himself? Why the Hell Not?
Will Trump pardon himself, complicating any future federal investigations into his possible misdeeds? I think so. And I would bet on him doing the same for family members.
Read more...A Tale of Two Elections: U.S. and Bolivia
US sanctimoniousness about the importance of elections respecting popular will does not apply outside our borders.
Read more...Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Read more...Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Read more...Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Read more...Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Americans’ Hunger During the Coronavirus Pandemic – Here’s What’s Happening in Los Angeles County
More and more Americans are suffering from hunger due to Covid economic stress, as Los Angeles demonstrates.
Read more...Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout
Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.
Read more...China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
More on “Whither China?”
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