Category Archives: Guest Post
Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In
Private equity is buying up funeral homes, enticed by a large industry with reliable income that is still mainly populated by small businesses.
Read more...Addiction Instead of Taxation
Increasing duties on tobacco is least effective amongst the least advantaged segments of the community at decreasing smoking. Over time, the effect of approaches such as this is to push an increasingly larger share of the burden for government revenue onto a smaller, and more disadvantaged and addicted section of the population.
Read more...Links 10/2/22
Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking.
Read more...Tech Billionaires Are Actually Dumber Than You Think
It turns out that many of today’s billionaires are selfish, lonely men fantasizing about how they will survive the end times they have played a part in creating.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2022
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Read more...More Fallout From the Nord Stream Pipeline Attacks
By Conor Gallagher Yves wrote yesterday about what the Russian response might be to the Nord Stream attacks. I wanted to touch on a few other potential consequences I’ve come across, and as there are no doubt more, hope to see them in comments. Economic Catastophre in Europe Now Certain There were questions in Washington […]
Read more...European Systemic Risk Board Issues First Ever “General Warning” About “Financial Stability Risks”
The European Systemic Risk Board is essentially an offshoot of the European Central Bank. And central banks are normally the last to admit that a crisis is around the corner, if not already here.
Read more...“End War in Ukraine” Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly
Conor: This is a good reminder that a) this war could be brought to an end if that wasn’t the last thing the US and the UK wanted, and b) when western media refer to the “international community” they’re typically referring only to US allies and omitting voices like the following. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2022
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Read more...When Labor isn’t Labor and Liberals aren’t Liberal
As Victoria prepares for the coming state election, Labor is likely to win despite its public corruption and lack of accountability to working people. In the absence of any decent opposition, “teal” independents opposing the Labor party without the baggage of the conservative Liberal Party will help to protect traditionally anti-Labor seats.
Read more...Links 9/29/22
We Need to Elect More Leaders From the Labor Movement Into Government
Electing more union members at the local level will help to combat right-wing attacks on workers and hold local government accountable to the ordinary people it’s intended to serve.
Read more...Indian Anger at Khalistan Referendum Costs Canadian Higher Education Sector
The Modi government has demonstrated that it wants to take its fight against the Khalistan movement to the international sphere and has punished the Canadian higher education sector for the Canadian government’s stance on the issue.
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