Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber
Hubert Horan takes another hard look at Uber financials and finds much not to like.
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Angus Deaton on How Neoliberal Ideology Produced Abject US Falling Life Expectancy for Less Educated
Angus Deaton returns to his deaths of despair theme, with updated data and a pointed critique of the role of Chicago School libertarians.
Read more...The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?
What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.
Read more...What Can Social Movements Learn From Gramsci in Today’s Uncertain Times?
Gramsci encourages movements to pursue wide-ranging interventions, but always to unite them as part of a common program to transform society.
Read more...Oil, Gas, Wages, Interest Rates: Biden’s Other 2024 Risks
A supposedly good economy has not helped Biden much and trends such as oil prices do not look to be in his favor.
Read more...The Nationalist Right Tries a New Formula to Sell the European Neoliberal Project
In Italy and elsewhere, the right combines anti-immigrant and chauvinist measures with neoliberal policy.
Read more...‘Renters Are Struggling’: Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control
Economists begin to admit that their models are wrong when it comes to anti-rent control arguments.
Read more...More on the Collapse of Operational Capabilities in the West: How Did We Get Here
Some thoughts on the rapid decline in operational capabilities, or why tons of people, particularly those in charge, are no good at their jobs
Read more...Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle
Rob Urie makes a reasoned, data-backed case that the tools used in supposed democracies to enforce class standing merit the label of fascism
Read more...Delivery Workers File Wage Theft Complaints Against DoorDash
DoorDash behaves badly via selective non-compliance with a new law setting pay rules for food delivery workers.
Read more...Energy Destinies – Part 8: Pathways
Satyajit Das concludes his series on the future of energy by looking at curbing demand, aka radical conseration.
Read more...Science Versus Scientism in Real Life: Where Do We Go from Here?
An engaging discussion of science-adjacent scintism, including Theranos. glysophate, Golden Rice, and rewilding.
Read more...Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance
Why health insurance schemes, both private insurance and society-wide programs, are more costly than and inferor to government funding.
Read more...Two Overlapping Takes on Inflation
MMT backer Richard Murphy and London finance organ City A.M. have surprisingly simliar views on the causes of inflation but differ on remedies
Read more...Going on a Big Energy Diet: Will the Status of Women Be a Casualty?
Will coming energy crunch roll back women’s gains?
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