American medicine is rife with conflicts of interest and soft corruption. Don’t kid yourself that RFK, Jr. and his allies are any better.
Read more...A Financial Times study stirs the pot with a new analysis: blacks and other out groups still face considerable discrmination in lending
Read more...How the debate over RFK, Jr. imposing big policy changes at the CDC illustrates the depth of tribalism in American discourse.
Read more...AI players are gaming utilities, and creating high odd of bad outcomes for other customers, by making duplicate orders for power.
Read more...Chanos looks at a broad range of investment hot topics, from cypto to AI, and sees vastly more speculation than value creation
Read more...Powell threw Mr. Market and Trump a bone by hinting the Fed might cut rates in Sept. But the Fed lacks good options with stagflation looming
Read more...A new “reassuring” study about withdrawal from antidepressants shows how blinkered the thinking around this type of medication is.
Read more...A new analysis challenges the widely-held view that extreme poverty has fallen sharply, and finds a big reversal due to neoliberal “reforms”
Read more...More on RFK, Jr.’s hypocrisy.
Read more...A relatively new financial product, buy now pay later loans, is deepening the misery of already over-extended Americans, especially Gen Z
Read more...A reader critical thinking exercise! Time to take a hard look at a study that argues that losing your job may not be all that terrible.
Read more...James Galbraith argues that economics can’t keep ignoring that energy and resources for production are no longer abundant and easy to access
Read more...Trump beats a big retreat in what he expects from the Putin summit even as Russia scores a major battlefield breakthrough.
Read more...Why the speed of the dollar’s demise seems to be a tad over-anticipated.
Read more...A former Fed economist explains in detail how the central bank has been using dodgy accounting to hide losses from impermissible subsidies
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