Worst Health Care Revolving Door Case So Far, Version 2.0? – From President of Lilly USA to US Secretary of Health and Human Services?
Trump is managing the difficult task of setting new lows in the revolving door category.
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Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Pollution Pays!
A study of DuPont’s failure to clean up emissions of a toxic chemical shows pollution is economical rational. Too bad the remedies are lame.
Read more...Another Disease of Despair: Rise in Hepatitis C Among Opioid Users
A rise in hepatitis C, another public health crisis in the making, shows the high cost of neglecting job creation and social safety nets.
Read more...An Irrational Choice: Behavioural Economist wins Nobel Prize
A round–up of reactions to behavioral economist Richard Thaler’s selection for the so-called Nobel Prize for Economics.
Read more...May to Plead With Merkel as Brexit Deadlocks Domestically Too; New Data Shows UK Lacks Foreign Reserves, Meaning Even More Vulnerable to Brexit
New data showing that the UK has negative net foreign assets throws even more cold water on the idea of a Glorious Brexit.
Read more...World Bank Must Stop Encouraging Harmful Tax Competition
The World Bank manages to make the IMF look good…..
Read more...Brexit Stalls: Talks Deadlocked, Repeal Bill Postponed; Beginning of the End of No Deal Denialism?
No Brexit deal looks like the most likely outcome, as the UK side is only starting to look at how disastrous that would be.
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Trump Administration Picks Bizarre Fight With IMF Over Report Backing Taxing the Rich
The IMF makes a careful case for more redistribution.
Read more...On the Cost of Gun Ownership
Economists debate guns.
Read more...“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
Read more...The High Price of Cheap Cannabis
Big ag is moving into cannabis farming, which means less sustainable practices. Can “little pot” find a way to survive?
Read more...Theresa May Tries to Pass Off Handwaves as Meaningful Planning in Case of Disorderly Brexit
The Government provides yet more evidence that it is utterly unprepared for Brexit.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The Big Amazon Subsidy is Doomed
Amazon is losing more and more ground to states out to collect sales taxes.
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