2:00PM Water Cooler 3/28/2023
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Links 3/28/2023
Brazil Looks To Strengthen Ties With China, As Taiwan Loses Yet Another Ally in Latin America
“Brazilian and Chinese interests… align at present in some important areas, the most important being an investment in a multipolar world order.”
Read more...Is Our Health Care System Turning Hospitals into (Covid) Death Traps?
Hospital epidemiologists are following the science. Is anybody else?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/27/2023
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Read more...Links 3/27/2023
FDIC Sells Much of Silicon Valley Bank to First-Citizens Bank. Total Cost of SVB Collapse to Deposit Insurance Fund: $20 Bn
Even collapsed banks have lots of assets that the FDIC sells to cover the costs to the Fund. Signature Bank collapse costs the Fund only $2.5 billion
Read more...How Debt Dynamics Polarize Economic and Political Power
An overview from Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity, which extends his analysis of how debt creates an entrenched elite.
Read more...Please Keep Off the Grass!
Breaking the power of the Lawn Industrial Complex.
Read more...Links 3/26/2023
Sen. Sanders Shows Fire, but Seeks Modest Goals, in His Debut Drug Hearing as Health Chair
“What am I missing in thinking that it’s cruel to make a medicine that people can’t afford?”
Read more...Links 3/25/2023
Gender Reveal… It’s Brands!
On gender proliferation.
Read more...Your ‘Recycled’ Grocery Bag Might Not Have Been Recycled
Recent laws encourage recycling old plastic into new products. But verifying recycled content relies on tricky math.
Read more...The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point
The media introduction to Michael Hudon’s newest book, The Collapse of Antiquity.
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