Category Archives: Market inefficiencies

Energy Destinies – Part 1: Power Needs and Sources – Balancing Barrels

Satyajit Das provides a series on the energy transition, starting with the historical role of energy and supply and demand patterns.

“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?”

In a new book, George DeMartino offers some novel and pointed criticisms of economics, focusing on societal damage.

‘Market Fundamentalism’ Is an Obstacle to Progress

Why market cheerleaders are bad for you.

PBMs, the Brokers Who Control Drug Prices, Finally Get Washington’s Attention

Why it isn’t easy to slip the leash of PBMs.

Who Will Save Puerto Rico’s Beaches From Rising Seas, Storms, and Developers? The People

As conflicts over public beach access on the island become more complicated and frequent, residents try to take matters into their own hands.

The Who and Why Behind the Push to Gut Child Labor Laws

“The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.” — Lewis Hine, 1908

Corporate Greed Is a Root Cause of Rail Disasters Around the World

Greece’s worst rail disaster ever is the result of the same corporate cost-cutting and deregulation that led to East Palestine and Lac-Mégantic disasters.

Senators Alarmed By Use of Rent-Setting Algorithm, Say It’s Helping Drive Inflation

How much is “information sharing” between mega property management companies driving the rise in housing costs?

Were the Bank Bailouts the Result of Rising Wealth Concentration?

Are many of the explanations of the recent bank tsuris barkign up the wrong tree?

Breached Dam, Incineration of Soil Flood East Palestine With Fresh Fears of Toxins

“I’ve had fear and now this just put the anxiety over the top,” said one local resident.

Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through

Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages

Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization

Rather than settle for narrow reforms, rail workers are pushing for public ownership of the US railroad system, which is commonplace throughout much of the world.

Meatpacking. Healthcare. Housing Rentals. Industries Across the Board Using Tech to Fix Wages and Prices

DOJ says it’s going to crack down as lawsuits pile up against real estate Goliaths and US officially becomes a “rent-burdened nation.”