Pharmaceutical Drugs at Cost + 15%? It’s Here Now
A way out of price gouging on drugs?
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Normalizing Nazis at Vogue, MSNBC, and “America’s Largest Documentary Festival” (but not Catalonia)
The Azov Battalion’s photographer tours the United States, goes on MSNBC.
Read more...In Alaska, a Mystery Over Disappearing Beluga Whales
Belugas pass cultural knowledge across generations. Their survival may depend on how they collectively adapt.
Read more...New Global Estimates on Profits in Tax Havens Suggest the Tax Loss Continues to Rise
Quelle surprise! Despite EU and US initiatives to curb corporate use of tax havens, big companies continue to fatten their wallets.
Read more...The Coming Revival of the American Chestnut (but through Genetic Engineering?)
A regulatory decision by a small USDA agency on the American Chestnut could have major ramifications for genetic engineering.
Read more...Links 12/4/2022
The Jobs Report in Light of what Powell Said: The Fed Cannot Create Supply of Labor, But it Can Slow the Demand for Labor
Higher interest rates, for longer.
Read more...“Jobs Are Up! Wages Are Up! So Why Am I as an Economist so Gloomy?”
Since the Fed can’t get more workers into the workplace but thinks it’s in charge of inflation, it will kill jobs with rate hikes.
Read more...Book Review: An Unflinching Critique of the Eugenics Movement
In “Control,” geneticist Adam Rutherford grapples with the dark history of eugenics and now its engineered implementation.
Read more...Links 12/2/2022
Latin American Leaders Call For Pardon and Release of Julian Assange from His “Unjust Imprisonment”
“Many people in Europe are following with admiration what is now happening in [Latin America],” said Wikileaks’ editor-in-chief and close confidant of Assange. “When looking at the political landscape in Europe all we have are dark forces.”
Read more...Hot Air Versus Hot Cash – The Europeans Prefer Russian LNG To US LNG
Yves here. The literature on cognitive biases has many examples of how presenting the same economic proposition in different terms, such as insurance versus a bet, will elicit different responses. Here we has the Russian gas cognitive bias. If it comes via a dedicated pipeline, as in no way, no how can Europeans kid themselves […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/1/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Links 12/1/2022
Will Full Gas Stores Save Europe From An Energy Emergency?
Sad to see the state of what passes for informed commentary on the European gas squeeze.
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