Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
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Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance
A deep dive into why big money players have become critical to big corruption.
Read more...Fast Food Suppliers Contribute to Increases in BMI and Decreases in IQ
Using Norwegian registry data, this column documents that the increased supply of fast food restaurants could be responsible for as much as 35% of the increase in BMI and 27% of the decline in cognitive ability observed across cohorts born during the 1980s.
Read more...Powell on the New Hawkishness in the Dot Plot and on Inflation: “We See that it Tells Us that We Need to Do More”
The Fed’s Powell: Core inflation “has not really moved down. It has not reacted much to our rate hikes. We’re going to have to keep at it.”
Read more...Annual Numbers of Excess Deaths in the US Relative to Other Developed Countries Are Growing at an Alarming Rate
America continues to be exceptional, here in our level of excess deaths.
Read more...“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?”
In a new book, George DeMartino offers some novel and pointed criticisms of economics, focusing on societal damage.
Read more...Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding
More pillaging of America, here in hospitals in flyover, where it won’t be noticed much before those practices start moving to the core.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Aids Vulture Investors Threatening Second Mortgage Borrowers With Foreclosure….on (Nearly Always) Legally Unenforceable Debt
Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Read more...Insurers Signal Fallout From Sanctions On Russia
UK maritime insurers are daring to speak up about the way they have become Russian sanctions collateral damage.
Read more...The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...The Loss of Executive Function in the West
On the decay of executive function, or why just about no one seems able to manage his way out of a paper bag.
Read more...No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
Read more...Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World
Michael Hudson explains how the treatment of debt winds up determing social structure.
Read more...Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
Read more...More American Cities Considering Free Public Transportation
In fits and starts, the idea of free public transportation is getting more of a following in the US.
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