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Fed Official: Climate Change is an ‘International Market Failure’
A report from the U.S. central bank cautions that rising temperatures and extreme storms could eventually trigger a financial collapse.
Read more...What Oklahoma’s Opioid Settlement Means for Other States, Cities and Counties Suing Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma has threatened to file bankruptcy in response to the tsunami of opioid-related litigation filed against it . That would throw a major spanner in the works.
Read more...Defying Trump Promises, American Companies Still Playing Offshore Tax Games
Quelle surprise! A one-time tax break for US companies to repatriate offshore profits didn’t stop the gaming, nor did it generate more investment.
Read more...Bank Regulation Can’t Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
At a G20 preparatory meeting, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees. The panelists didn’t mince words.
Read more...Boeing Doubles Down on 737 Max, Rejects Need for Simulator Training
Boeing is compounding its bad decisions on the 737 Max.
Read more...Poll: Michelle Obama Would Be Frontrunner in 2020 If She Ran
Will Michelle Obama make the Obamas offiically yet another political dynasty?
Read more...Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court
America’s messy relationship with the International Criminal Court is in a particularly rocky phase. Of course, being exceptional means never having to admit citizens may have committed war crimes.
Read more...The Impact of Within-Group Conflict on Trust and Trustworthiness
On how life-and-death-level infighting has lasting effects on trust.
Read more...Taxcast: Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash
This month’s Taxcast discusses misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative, and omitted alternative solutions.
Read more...Costly Confusion: Patients Caught by Medicare Not Covering Annual Physical Exams
Yves here. This post presents a classic example of why medical care in America sucks. It’s too much about billing and not enough about patient care. I know patients who can have a yearly visit to an MD covered under their plan as either a physical or a medium complexity visit for conditions for which […]
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...Boeing Crapification: 737 MAX Play-by-Play, Regulatory Capture, and When Will CEO Muilenburg Become the Sacrificial Victim?
High-level causes of the 737 MAX debacle, and how MCAS got certified.
Read more...Report from the Ground in Paris: The Most Recent Gilets Jaunes Protests
A report from Colonel Smithers.
Read more...Electronic Health Records: Death By A Thousand Clicks
Rather than an electronic ecosystem of information, the nation’s thousands of EHRs largely remain a sprawling, disconnected patchwork. Moreover, the effort has handcuffed health providers to technology they mostly can’t stand and has enriched and empowered the $13-billion-a-year industry that sells it.
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