Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?
Tech companeis laying off tens of thousands of employees, underscoring their fixation on short-term performance metrics.
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Monopsony in Professional Labor Markets: Hospital System Concentration and Nurse Wage Growth
elle surprise! “Growing consolidation in localized hospital markets appears to restrict nurse wage growth.”
Read more...Collapse Revisited: Climate Change and the Development of Middle-Income Countries
Middle income countries are unwilling to put groaf on hold to blunt climate change…and they do have a point given the lack of serious plans
Read more...Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and the Tenor of Our Time
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin both struggled with the upheaval of the 20th century. Arendt’s The Human Condition wins the argument.
Read more...Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
“Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.”
Read more...Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits
Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.
Read more...Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson Explain Multipolarity, Decline of US Hegemony
The new year gets off to a rousing start with the launch of a new bi-weekly talk show with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson.
Read more...Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
Efforts by governments and cities to defund the public library are thankully falleing short due to essential role libraries play.
Read more...180 Million Barrels Of Crude May Never Be Returned to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Biden plan for replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is unrealitic. And it does not appear to have a Plan B.
Read more...Crypto-Focused Silvergate Bank Got De Facto Backdoor FDIC Bailout via $4.3 Billion Federal Home Loan Bank Advance
More crypto chicanery! How crypto-focused bank Silvergate got a very big ticket rescue from a quasii-government mortgage banker’s bank.
Read more...Textbooks Are Falling Behind on Climate Change
A new study found that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change than they did before 2010.
Read more...50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Allende was early to warn of multinational threats to product safety, labor regulations, and other protections. Sadly corporate interests won.
Read more...‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources
Law professor Mary Wood breaks describes how the public trust can protect rights to clean air, water, and land.
Read more...How Austerity Caused the NHS Crisis
As the NHS crisis intensifies, a look at how the once esteemed service got there.
Read more...The Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy
A new analysis finds our inflation comes first from Covid/sanctions supply shocks and second, spending by the rich, not government spending.
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