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Mission and Money Clash in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Venture Capital Ambitions

Though their tax-exempt status is predicated on charitable efforts, nonprofit health systems rarely put humanitarian goals first when selecting investments.

Imperialism Then and Now: Capital Relocation, Inequality, Encroachment and Protracted Crisis

On how imperialism enabled exploitation of labor in the global South, and then pressure on worker wages in advanced economies.

Could California End Up With a Trump-Like Governor?

How much should Californians worry that Larry Elder, a politically inexperienced, hard core right winger, might become governor?

Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?

Just as importantly, why is the regulator laying off 20% of its workforce in the midst of a global pandemic?

Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 – Lead IPCC Author

The latest IPCC report shows we are climate-cooking our goose more quickly than even most pessimists had thought.

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. Vaccination by region: South still fiddling and diddling. 51.7% […]

The Most Monstrously Overstimulated Economy & Markets Ever

The Fed will trim back its stimulus, but it’s already pumped up markets and the unwind will be too little and too slow.

Here’s What Makes a New Amazon Carbon Study So Unnerving

Walking through yet more troubling information about the state of the Amazon.

Links 8/26/2021

Imperialism Then and Now: Drain of Wealth, Depression, The Role of the State and Globalization

Yves here. This is the second section of the GPENewdoc historical series on imperialism and capitalism. You can find Part 1 here. By Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPENewsdocs Prabhat Patnaik explains how the colonial system led to depression. Then, in advanced countries governments stepped in to increase demand and productivity, but how unless the […]