The Global Semiconductor Talent Crunch: How Protectionism Backfired
Oopsie! US semiconductor protectionism looks to have reduced the size of the pool of needed workers and experts.
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Pitchbook Report Attempting to Defend Private Equity Role in Healthcare Suffers from Fundamental, Fatal Analytical Flaw
A recent report from Pitchbook commits data crimes in attempting to depict private equity management of healthcare companies as benign.
Read more...‘Woah!’: FTC Applauded for Launching Inquiry Into Surveillance Pricing
The FTC targets surveillance pricing, which is privacy-risking data harvesting used to charge higher prices.
Read more...US Voters Want Change, Biden’s Exit Hasn’t Fixed That
Communities ravaged by neoliberal capitalism want real change. Candidates like Biden make Trump look more able to deliver it.
Read more...How Big Pharma Preys on Poor Countries – and Patients Pay the Price
New investigation reveals unequal access to life-saving meds across Europe thanks to Big Pharma system that favors the rich
Read more...Wealthy Enclaves Belatedly Rebelling Against Supersized Houses
Many of the wealthy have taken to recoiling against hypertrophied houses, although they don’t ‘splain why very well.
Read more...Exporting Extinction: The Global Political Economy of Biodiversity Loss
A new report, Exporting Extinction, delves into the economic and political drivers of species-destroying resource exploitation.
Read more...IT Staffing Agency Smoothstack Traps Tech Workers in “Modern Day Indentured Servitude”, Federal Suit Alleges
Smoothstack, with some Fortune 500 clients, demanded its employees stay at the company for about two years or face fines up to $30,000.
Read more...Michael Hudson: World Shaking Up! Epic Political & Economic Earthquakes
Michael Hudson reviews the commitments made at the recent NATO and SCO gatherings and what they mean for changes in the world order.
Read more...“Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.”
More discussion of tariffs as the US is using to whack Chinese imports, above all EVs.
Read more...Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
Read more...EU Undershoots 155MM Shell Capacity Target by More Than Half, Blames All Sorts of Things Besides Lack of Operational Capability
EU inability to meaningful increase 155mm shell production show the high cost of giving private arms-makers free rein.
Read more...Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led ‘Revolution’
The “second American Revolution” underway will “remain bloodless,” said the head of Project 2025 “if the left allows it to be.”
Read more...Biden’s De Facto EV Mandate at Risk After Supreme Court ‘Chevron’ Ruling
A look at just one implication of the fresh Chevron Supreme Court ruling demonstrates how far-reaching it is.
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