Category Archives: Guest Post

It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”

Households and businesses are overloaded with debt. Richard Vague offers a set of proposals for how to restructure it.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2020

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How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South

How the New Democrats’ trade deals fractured the multi-racial coalition that Martin Luther King had helped forge in the South.

Telemedicine Tales

An MD who has supported telemedicine discusses some pitfalls in the Covid-era implementations.

Thousands of New York ‘Long Haulers’ Struggle with COVID-19 Months After Diagnosis

Some doctors estimate that there are as many as 70,000 “long Covid” patients in New York alone.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/16/2020

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Demonizing Socialism and “Macroeconomic Populism”: Myths of Soft Budget Constraints

Some econmists have criticized industrial policy as zombie-crearting “macroeconomic populism.” Evidence indicates otherwise.

Links 9/16/2020

Trump’s Eviction Moratorium Opens the Door for Medicare for All by Executive Order

Since Covid-19 will be with us till at least the end oe 2021 (and I suspect longer), it opens the path for emergency Medicare for All.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/15/2020

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Political HHS Appointees Demand Authority to Rewrite CDC Reports

Trump partisans and the ongoing war against the CDC; seeking authority to amend Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Reports.

Links 9/15/2020

Brazil’s Pantanal Wetland is On Fire, Joining Other Places Where Wildfires Rage or Have Recently Burned Out of Control

Brazil’s Pantanal wetland is burning, joining other rworld egions afflicted with climate change-fueled wildfires.