Category Archives: Dubious statistics

Climate Bill Passes: It Could Short-Circuit EV Tax Credits, Making Qualifying for Them Nearly Impossible

Did Joe Manchin sneak an EV poison pill of sorts into the just-passed climate legislation?

Wrong Way CalPERS Increased Private Equity Allocation by Over 50% as Investors Are Dumping Holdings

The Financial Times reports that private equity investors are running for the exits as CalPERS plans to pile on.

Recession Mongers Shocked & Horrified by This Surge in Employment

Perversely, investors want a recession to force the Fed to pivot. But it’s tough to have an official recession with employment growing.

PredictIt: The Closing of a Prediction Market

PredictIt is likely to shutter. A look at how contract holders may win or lose, as well as the loss of a window into voter sentiment.

Inside the Democrats’ Climate Deal with the Devil

The new climate package furthers the US’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.

Serotonin and the Unsubstantiated Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Disorders

A foundational theory on the role of serotonin is a mere unsupported intuition, but mass drug peddling is nevertheless based on it.

How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals

REITs are considered “passive” investors but play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like hospitals

Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash

A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.

Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong

Looking at inflation through a class warfare lens.

“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”

On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.

IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health

The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.

Michael Hudson on Finance Capitalism’s Self-Destructive Nature

Michael Hudson rings the changes on a favorite theme: the differences between the financial capitalism and industrial capitalism systems

Some Quick Thoughts About Russia’s Resilience and America’s Malaise

Seeking reader input on preliminary hypotheses on why Russia is faring better than expected under the sanctions while the US is suffering.

Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection

Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.