The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
The Covid nightmare in India won’t end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing the contagion, is standing pat.
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From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network Podcast, April 2021
“Caring economy” sounds awfully soft and fuzzy. However, it may finally be time to reject utlitarian views of how we organize our resources.
Read more...Softer Monetary Policy Increases Inequality
Quelle suprise! Asset-goosing loose monetary policy helps the rich more than the poor even in egalitarian Denmark.
Read more...Another False Start in Africa Sold with Gates Foundation Green Revolution Myths
The Gates-Foundation-promoted Green Revolution has proven harmful and also crowded out safer and effective ecological agriculture projects
Read more...The Shock and Reality of Catching Covid After Being Vaccinated
A discussion of Covid “breakthrough” cases.
Read more...The CDC’s VAERS and Vaccine Complications: The System is Broken
The CDC has been visibly remiss in gathering and updating Covid data in VAERS, and that typifies its pandemic mismanagement.
Read more...Applications for New Businesses Have a Double-WTF Moment
Federal data says new businesses are being formed in droves. But PPP fraud complicates this otherwise positive picture.
Read more...Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing
Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
Read more...Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
A doctor describes how the officialdom’s arrogant, “one size fits all” vaccine messaging is backfiring by alienating conservative Christians.
Read more...QE During the “Everything Mania”: Fed’s Assets at $7.7 Trillion, Up $3.5 Trillion in 13 months
Trying to make sense of what the Fed is up to.
Read more...Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...LACERS Board Member Lambastes Lousy Private Equity Returns as More Studies Confirm Poor Performance for Decades
Yet another nail in the private equity performance coffin.
Read more...Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.
Read more...Sick Unicorns: America’s Broken Start-Up System
Unicorn startups are even more unprofitable than those that did not achieve unicorn status.
Read more...New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools, Based on Outdated, Cherry-Picked, and Misinterpreted Data, Put Students, Teachers, and Communities at Risk
Pushing to reopen schools based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence.
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