Category Archives: Guest Post
Bank of England Warns of Record Slump in Standard of Living, As It Hikes Interest Rates for Second Time in Two Months
The decision to implement back-to-back rate hikes, for the first time since 2004, heaps yet more pressure on household incomes and struggling businesses. It came a day after the UK Government passed generous tax cuts for banks.
Read more...Why Young Workers Are Driving a Wave of Unionization
The young are again on the forefront of change, now by challenging neoliberal atomization and indoctrination by forming unions.
Read more...Ending Drug Price Gouging: A Regulatory Framework for Pricing of Medicine Innovation
regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/3/2022
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Read more...What Does Climate Change Have to do with Snowstorms?
An easy-to-present example of how climate change affects weather.
Read more...Could the U.S. Defend Ukraine?
It’s no secret that the US can’t help Ukraine on the ground, charitably assuing Russia intends to Do Something. So what is the point?
Read more...Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating
Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/2/2022
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Read more...Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery
Inflation hawks are winning. A ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise interest rates has begun. But this response slows economic growth.
Read more...The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
Read more...Sweet Smell of Success: Tales From the Garbage Heap Lost and Found
Yes, sometimes you really can get things back that mistakenly went out in the garbage. Some pointers on when that might be possible.
Read more...Almost Half of Spain Is Now Vaccine Passport-Free (At Least for Domestic Uses)
Catalonia becomes the third region in two weeks to drop the digital vaccine certificate. Four regions, including the Community of Madrid, never implemented it for domestic use.
Read more...Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There
A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2022
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