Category Archives: Guest Post
Electronic Health Records: Death By A Thousand Clicks
Rather than an electronic ecosystem of information, the nation’s thousands of EHRs largely remain a sprawling, disconnected patchwork. Moreover, the effort has handcuffed health providers to technology they mostly can’t stand and has enriched and empowered the $13-billion-a-year industry that sells it.
Read more...“Middle Class” Once Meant Stability and Now Means Fragility
The middle class used to be the bedrock of American institutions. Now its members are coping with an uncertain future.
Read more...Can Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Be Trusted To Turn Facebook into a “Privacy-Focused Communications Platform?”
Spoiler alert: No.
Read more...Links 3/17/19
Who’s Behind Trump’s Claim the Green New Deal Will Cost $100 Trillion?
President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced back to the Manhattan Institute, a think tank backed by fossil fuel investor Paul Singer and companies like ExxonMobil.
Read more...Outsourcing Giant Interserve with 65,000 Employees Collapses
Another UK outsourcing implosion in just over a year….what gives?
Read more...Of Course We Can Pay for a Green New Deal, but We Can’t Escape Hard Choices
A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...Bill Black: Three Natural Experiments Documenting Krugman’s Bias Against MMT
Funny how considering MMT brings out the worst in some people….
Read more...A Way-Too-Early Handicapping of the 2020 Presidential Race
2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Mars or Mercury Redux: How Geopolitics Influence Bilateral Trade Agreements
Quelle surprise! US trade agreements depend more on the US being a reliable military ally than many like to think.
Read more...MMT Responds to Brad DeLong’s Challenge
Randy Wray wades in yet again to contend with disinformation about MMT.
Read more...Martin Wolf: Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again
Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/13/2019
Today’s Water Cooler, including Biden and the working class, Gabbard, Harris, Sanders, Yang, AOC, voting machines, reparations, durable goods, producer prices, inflation expecations, construction, ongoing 737 debacle, Wells Fargo, Amazon, SEIU, cash, Varsity Blues, chat, quantum time reversal
Read more...Another Way the Rich Get Richer: US Indicts Fifty for College Admissions Fraud
Federal prosecutors indicted fifty people yesterday for college admissions fraud at several elite institutions, including Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale. Serious discussion of how college admissions procedures foster inequality is long overdue.
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