Washington Going Full Andrew Mellon as Stimulus Talks Drag, Inadequate Support Guaranteed
An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
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Call for ‘Emergency Charity Stimulus’ as Billionaire Wealth Soars and US Nonprofits Sink
Charity reform would help deploy more funds to address more Covid-19 needs, but the real remedy lies in much bolder government spending.
Read more...The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Read more...Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA
IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
Read more...Plastics in Oceans Will Triple By 2040, Absent Immediate Drastic Action
Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea
Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?
Read more...The War Nerd: Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence
War Nerd Newlestter 100:Irish potato famine and more: a tour d’horizon through AK Sen, Victorian literature, et.al.
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Brexit and Inertia
Things have changed very little on the Brexit front, which is not good.
Read more...Indian Farmers Are Staring at Suicide as Modi Government Looks the Other Way
An account from India on farmer suicide and why many could have been prevented.
Read more...Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Read more...How Mitch McConnell’s Hostility to the Unemployment Supplement Puts Ordinary Americans’ Welfare at Risk
Republicans intend to shoot themselves and the economy in the head out of ideological rigidity by killing the unemployment supplement.
Read more...Random Testing in Indiana Shows COVID-19 is 6 Times Deadlier Than Flu, and 2.8% of the State Has Been Infected
Sobering data from the first random statewide Covid-19 survey.
Read more...Recovery of Collapsed Airline Traffic in the US Backtracks
Traffiic data confirmed warnings by United and Delta of re-declining ticket sales, seinding airline shares down 3.7% intraday.
Read more...As Covid-19 Patients Skew Younger, Tracing Task Seems All But Impossible
Why Covid-19 infecting younger people is making disease contaiment harder.
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