Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Why Gilead’s price gouging for its Covid-19 treatment remdevisir is even more egregious than you thought.
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Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing (Part II)
Private equity profiteering in prisions and education demonstrates why their enthusiasm for socially responsible investing is a con.
Read more...Will the E-Money Boom Make the UK a Hub of Money Laundering?
Quelle suprise! E-money is facilitating financial fraud. And the UK’s FCA is unduly accommodating.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/8/2020
~ COVID problem states ~ Electoral college map shifts ~ Biden’s typefaces ~ Trump to drop out? Not what he says ~ The Great Assimilation™ (and kreplach) ~ Vote by mail ~ Robot cars ~ Unto dust shalt thou return ~ Airborne SARS-COV-2 ~ Epstein’s lead-lined bathroom ~ Cat-bee photos ~
Read more...“Warren’s Eviction Bill Is Economically and Politically Savvy”
Why Warren’s eviction bill, which calls for a one-year eviction freeze, does not go far enough to save homeowners, tenants, and businesses.
Read more...Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing
Private equity wants investors to believe that it can do good. The damage it has done through its health care industry profiteering says otherwise.
Read more...After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?
Teachers are again in the middle of a political fight, this one over the perceived need to reopen US schools pronto.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/7/2020
COVID-19 problem states, New York ups quarantine ~ Biden’s path to failure ~ Sanders post mortem ~ Trump’s curiously silent internal polling ~ “A pitiful, helpless giant” ~ Lincoln Project ~ Employment, housing ~ COVID treatment improves ~ Zombie artic fires ~ Reparations ~ Forms of happiness
Read more...Key CIA-Backed Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
A sordid example of what happens when the CIA is willing to get in bed with just about anyone to advance what it sees as US interests.
Read more...Time for the West to Embrace Chinese Industrial Policy, Not Eliminate it
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that the US does have an industrial policy, even if it comes out by default through which groups manage to extract the most subsidies. Favored sectors include housing, the defense-surveillance complex, financial services, higher education, oil and gas, and niche interests like sugar. So the umbrage about China (and Japan […]
Read more...Can Davos Man Punch the “Great Reset” Button?
The World Economics Forum asks for trouble next year, both ideologically and institutionally.
Read more...Exiting the Vampire Castle
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other
Read more...Links 7/6/2020
Hubert Horan: Can Collateralizing Frequent Flyer Programs Help Save the US Airlines?
Dissecting the latest airline gimmick to separate investors from their money: pledging their frequent flyer programs.
Read more...Risking Nuclear War for Dollars
Why the risk of nuclear war has been and remains much higher than you realize.
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