Reviewing Healthcare Costs as Driven by Pharma, Hospitals, and Doctors
Decomposing the rise in US healthcare costs. Of course, it’s not much due to more or better care, but higher charges.
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A Crisis Is Looming For The U.S. Energy Grid
The US plans to further stress its grid with electricity vehicle demands, with no plans for upgrades.
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Big Pharma’s Obscene Profits, Not Striking Nurses, Are Killing the NHS
US patients are not the only victims of Big Pharma price gouging.
Read more...Twitter and the State, Part 2
Highlights from the latest Twitter Files releases.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/21/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Over the Holidays, Try Talking to Your Relatives Like an Anthropologist
How to talk to your relatives to learn more about their history and the society they once inhabited.
Read more...Salvador Luria, 1912-1991: A Scientist for Our Time
On accomplished scientist, institution-builder, teacher and activitst Salvadore Luria.
Read more...Monopoly Power vs Democracy – Matt Stoller
A wide-ranging discussion of some of the key mechanisms for exercising power in advaced economies, starting with monopolies.
Read more...Meet the Grinch Stealing Social Security, the Future of Gen Y And Z
ow Social Security is a victim of wage stagflation.
Read more...Unequal Education and the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’
A look at the role of educational advantage in perpetuating inequality.
Read more...As Crypto-Crisis Metastasizes, Big Moves Are Being Made on CBDCs
Leading the charge are the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, which between them account for roughly three out of every eight people on planet Earth.
Read more...The Weather Nightmare Before Christmas
A sprawling cold wave and blizzard will bring some of the nation’s most dangerous and disruptive pre-holiday weather in recent decades.
Read more...MMT Answers
A short MMT refresher course in the form of a Q&A.
Read more...Book Review: Lance deHaven-Smith, “C*******cy T****y in America”
Existing weaknesses and possible strengths of “citizen political science”
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