‘America Has a Monopoly Problem’: Coalition Backs Legislation to Break Up Big Tech
Anti-monopoly interests have proposed a series of bills to give regulators more power, particularly with respect to tech.
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Lack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
Why most hospitals aren’t imposing vaccine mandates.
Read more...Behold the Watered Stock’s New Variant!
Back to the future! Welcome to the successor to a 19th century favorite, watered stock.
Read more...Prominent CalPERS Retiree Group Warns California Secretary of State About Illegal, Hacking-Friendly Voting Methods
An important CalPERS beneficiary group calls out the fund’s use of illegal, insecure, fraud-friendly internet and phone voting.
Read more...‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
Read more...Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 – Lead IPCC Author
The latest IPCC report shows we are climate-cooking our goose more quickly than even most pessimists had thought.
Read more...I Studied People Who Think Leisure Is a Waste of Time – Here’s What I Found
Leisure? Bah, humbug!
Read more...“All-Electric Future Comes At A Huge Cost”
Tempering some of the enthuiasm for “all-electric” schemes.
Read more...How the Economics of Walking About Helps Predict Unemployment, or the Value of Soft Data
On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.
Read more...The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
Read more...School or ‘Russian Roulette’? Amid Delta Variant and Lax Mask Rules, Some Parents See No Difference
A discussion of parents worried about sending their kids back to school curiously contains only red state/nonurban examples.
Read more...“Are vaccines becoming less effective at preventing Covid infection?”
As more data about the Covid vaccines comes out, it is becoming acceptable to step away from cheerleading and make factual judgments.
Read more...Biden Administration to Withhold Medicare and Medicaid $ from Nursing Homes Not Having Fully Vaxxed Staff
The Biden Administration thinks it can coerce badly paid workers in nursing homes who’ve held out to take the jab. That’s not a great wager.
Read more...Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman
Why Elon Musk, despite having built significant operating companies, is still mainly in the bezzle business.
Read more...Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report
A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.
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