The Failure of the Public Health Establishment
Questioning whether the public health response to Covid is really about protecting the public.
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It’s Time to Break Up Britain
The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?
Read more...Polarized Pandemic Response and Covid-19 Connectedness Across US States
US data shows that strict responses reduce Covid outbreaks, and less stringent (Republican) states spread disease to each other.
Read more...Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
Read more...Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?
Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.
Read more...Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities
The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.
Read more...Business and Related Restrictions Appear to Curb COVID-19 Fatality Growth, But Some Do Not
An examination of particularly Covid-containment strategies in terms of cost versus effectiveness.
Read more...Green Growth vs Degrowth: Are We Missing the Point?
A broad discussion of the climate change growth versus degrowth debate and how to move forward despite those differences.
Read more...Brexit: Stumbling
More Brexit posturing, but also some hardening of positions when both sides would need to give to get a deal.
Read more...NYC Landlords Suing Pandemic-Slammed Small Businesses by the Hundreds for Missed Rent
Pandemic-starved businesses are facing off against landlords who want rent paid. New York City illustrates some of the legal and practical issues.
Read more...As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]
Read more...Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
Read more...Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Read more...Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.
Read more...Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
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