Monopoly Now Wants You to Cheat—Just Like Real Capitalists
Bad monopoly behavior, both in the classic game and in real life, are ever more in vogue. But a backlash has begun.
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Government Shutdown Once Again Shows the Lies Behind Deficit Hysteria
How the wealthy use deficit scaremongering to keep wages down and stave off calls for more investment and social spending.
Read more...An Aetna “Fake Accounts” Level Scandal? Medical Director Admits He Never Reviewed Medical Records Before Denying Care
An Aetna medical director said he didn’t review any cases, a bombshell admission even for one doctor, and damning if a normal practice.
Read more...Cryptocurrencies Don’t Make Sense
How cryptocurrencies do a poor job of delivering on their supposed purposes.
Read more...Wizards and Prophets Face Off to Save the Planet
How to feed 10 billion people? Wizards, as in technophiles, and prophets, conservationists, have very different answers.
Read more...Protests in Tunisia Over IMF-Promoted Policies….for Good Reason
Why the IMF’s standard prescription is a poor fit for Tunisia.
Read more...The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Trump’s Financial Arsonists
How Trump’s financial deregulators are arranging more gimmies to banks.
Read more...Whole Foods Becomes Amazon Hell Foods as Employees, Managers Quit, Cry on the Job….and These People Want to Run Your Healthcare?
Amazon is being its vicious self yet again, now at Whole Foods.
Read more...Patient Dumping: A “New” Cost Savings Strategy for Hospitals
Some hospitals have put indigent patients out on the street, clad only in hospital gowns, something that was previously unthinkable.
Read more...Ilargi: Shithouses
How Trump’s widely deplored shithouses comment was an unintended, uncomfortable truth about US policy.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.
Read more...A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
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