Covid Baby Bust Has Governments Rattled
A falloff in baby production has capitalists very worried.
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Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems
Why the Biden stimulus program is fundamentally wrongheaded.
Read more...How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times
The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
Read more...The Bullshit Economy: Homebuying “Help”
Introducing “The Bullshit Economy” from Jared Hoist, on products and companies that exist solely to exploit policy failures, in a bad way.
Read more...A Less Trumpy Version of Trumpism Might Be the Future of the Republican Party
The Republican Party is already repositioning itself.
Read more...“I’m Sorry,” Says Ro Khanna, “An Unelected Parliamentarian Does Not Get to Deprive 32 Million Americans the Wage Raise They Deserve.”
The Biden Administration proves it cares only about the donor classes by standing pat as its own $15 minimum wage proposal founders.
Read more...Eviction Moratorium Deemed Unconstitutional by Federal Judge in Texas
The Trump and Biden stimulus on the cheap, of having landlords support income-starved renters in lieu of subsidies, is now in trouble.
Read more...The Climate Crisis, Rationing and Conscription
Has the time come for the brute force approach to combatting climate change of rationing.
Read more...This Obscure Energy Treaty Is the Greatest Threat to the Planet You’ve Never Heard Of
The Energy Charter Treaty lets fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action on climate change. It must be stopped.
Read more...Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon.
Read more...More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000 Increase in Nursing Home Deaths, 160,000 Life Years Lost Due to Cuts in Care
Private equity greed knows no bounds: their nursing home acquisitions generated a “serious” rise in deaths and fall in other measures of care
Read more...Why Behavioral Economics Needs Behavioral Biology: Avoiding Arms Races
Are behavioral economists really nudging people in the right direction?
Read more...Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about reining in Google and restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
Read more...Republicans Offer Preview of Brutal Climate Policies in Texas
Some Republicans are not letting the crisis in Texas go to waste.
Read more...Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Yves here. The collateral damage of the Texas power grid power failures is getting worse and worse. Extensive burst pipes now mean that 14 million (no typo) are without potable water. From the Wall Street Journal: More than 14 million people in Texas are without safe drinking water, as the fallout of a severe winter […]
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