GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ In Health System Showing Up In Crowdfunding
GoFundMe campaigns as proof of America’s health care crisis.
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Michael Olenick: Helicidine – French Miracle Snails
Snails to the rescue!
Read more...$15 Minimum Wage: Job Killer or Path Out of Poverty?
This Real News Network segment sets forth the most common arguments against increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, or alternatively, a living wage level, and shows why they don’t hold up to scrutiny. A decent minimum wage is even more important when the supposedly robust US economy is increasingly creating McJobs. JAISAL NOOR: […]
Read more...The Downside of Market-Minded Philanthropy
Beware of squillionaires practicing philanthropy…..
Read more...Thoughts on Warren and Sanders: How Much Change Is Needed in 2021?
A look at Warren’s and Sanders’ fundamental political stances and what they might mean for their 2020 campaigns.
Read more...How Shocking Was Shock Therapy?
Poland managed to escape a lot of the “shock doctrine” treatment, yet has gone hard right. What happened?
Read more...Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India
The Modi government is trying to stare down large-scale strikes against its labor “reforms” in India.
Read more...The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family’s Second Opioid Company
The Sackler family has managed to hide its ownership of a drug company with an even bigger share of the US opioid market than Purdue Pharma.
Read more...The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes
Quelle surprise! Scammers have cooked up trading schemes to defraud upstanding cryptocurrency users.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Davos Wants a Better Measure of Failure
Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Kiss What Is Left of Your Medical Data Privacy Goodbye
While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Response to Reader Comments
A follow up to Andrew Dittmer’s series on libertarian thinking.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty
The implications of conservative libertarian ideas.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities
More on the implications of the writings of prominent conservative libertarian, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part IV – The Journey into a Libertarian Past
Further discussion of the implications of the ideas of an influential conservative libertarian.
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