Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
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An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
Read more...Authoritative Consultant Slams Private Equity in Journal Article: Cheap Index Funds and In House Buys Beat PE Funds
Yet another authoritative source slams private equity returns.
Read more...‘95% Effective’ May Not Mean What You Think It Means
A detailed discussion of the headline “95% effective” claim for the about-to-be-released Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.
Read more...Jamie Galbraith: How Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers Reinforce a Destructive, Debunked Mainstream Paradigm to Support Deficit Spending
To defend deficits, Furman and Summers relied on debunked theories, thus preserving destructive mainstream economic ideas.
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...The Jobs Report is a Mess, December Will Be Messier
The Nov. 14 cut-off kept most of the Covid spike impact from the jobs data. And there’s underying decay due to globalization.
Read more...Women and the Middle-Aged Taking Brunt of Covid Employment Losses
While the Covid employment picture has unquestionably improved, don’t kid yourself into thinking that it is good.
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...Another Blow to Private Equity: “You Can Pick Winners” Again Shown To Be a Fool’s Game
More bad news about private equity returns.
Read more...Reply from Authors of “To Save the Economy, Save People First” Regarding “Lockdowns Work”
More on lockdowns as a core response to community spread of Covid-19.
Read more...Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread
And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….
Read more...The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem
The more you look at Pfizer’s vaccine, the more you have to think they really really needed that first mover advantage.
Read more...Is Fear of AOC Why Chuck Schumer Is Pumping a Non-Starter “Cancel Student Debt by Executive Order” Scheme?
It’s odd to see Democrats talking about a Biden “100 days” when Obama did nothing like that when he actually did have a mandate to do so that he ignored. Did they not get the memo that their blue wave didn’t hit the beach? It’s even odder to see Chuck Schumer affecting a Damascene conversion, […]
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