Truss and Sunak’s Reheated Thatcherism Is the Last Thing the UK Needs
Truss and Sunak treat the Iron Lady as their muse, while Labour touts another flavor of neoliberalism, that of Tony Blair.
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How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
REITs are considered “passive” investors but play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like hospitals
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong
Looking at inflation through a class warfare lens.
Read more...Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Read more...Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.
Read more...UPS Drivers Demand AC in Trucks Following Heat Wave: ‘It’s Like Walking Into Hell’
Delivery drivers work in what ought to be illegal conditions. Will anything change?
Read more...Left in the Dark: The Families Struggling to Survive Fuel Poverty
The future many in the UK and Europe will suffer this winter: having to choose between food and fuel.
Read more...Boris Johnson Is Going – but His Cronyism and Corruption Are Here to Stay
Has Johnson left a lasting mark on the Tories, or is it merely that he overshadows his entirely underwhelming potential successors?
Read more...If the Democratic Party Tried to Change, Would its Ecosystem Prevent It?
“Fixing the Democratic Party” is more daunting than most think. Most of the Party’s big-dollar ecosystem exists to keep it just as it is.
Read more...Why Workers Are Turning to Unions
Unions are gaining steam….
Read more...Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For
The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health
The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.
Read more...Behind the Crisis in Sri Lanka – How Political and Economic Mismanagement Combined to Plunge Nation into Turmoil
Some background on the escalating crisis in Sri Lanka and what might come next.
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
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