The Geography of EU Discontent
The EU’s flyover, meaning areas in economic decline, are also its hotbeds of discontent and anti-EU sentiment.
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Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/6/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg terminal gaffe, Harris, Sanders, Harry Reid, impeachment, Durham report a damp squib?, employment situation, electric vehicles, Apple, the startup Away, suburban buses, Sunrise Movement, care work, domesticated humans, the cortex
Read more...US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow
A proposed provision in the so-called “NAFTA 2.0” to increase autoworker wages in Mexico is raising hackles south of the border.
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Coal Is Dead, But China Is Reviving It
Bad climate news: coal is far from over.
Read more...Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration
Nurses, or more accurately, nurse staffing levels demonstrate a central bad incentive in American medicine.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: WTO dispute resolution, digital services, Huawei, 2000 v. 2019, Biden’s bus, Buttigieg, Iowa caucus, impeachment witness statements, VSAP, Wells Fargo, UPS, Google, private equity, corals, climate polling, health insurance, Maxwell’s equations, generationsd
Read more...‘Dark Waters’ Tells the Origin Story of a Public Health Nightmare. We’re Still Living It.
On a docu-drama that recounts the first major suit against toxic “forever chemicals” and what’s being done about them now.
Read more...The Debt Delusion
A short take on John Week’s new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Impeachment v. trade bill, France v. US, US v. China, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Jewish-Americans, Stacey Abrams, employment, manufacturing, services, shipping, potatoes, another IoT debacle, P4HCAF, prison staffing, slavery, the connectome, the Dead
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Why the UK Needs a Financial Transaction Tax
Claims that a financial transaction tax would be difficult to implement and raise little revenue are fake news.
Read more...Opening of Formerly Secret FDA Database Exposes Medical Device Failures, Spurring Lawsuits
The FDA kept a database of medical device malfunctions secret for decades.
Read more...Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer
Emerging economies want large scale subsidies from their richer brethren to pay for them to move to green energy sources.
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