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Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties

The United States has not lived up to its legal and moral commitments or its own stated policies to protect civilian lives.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No, Covid 19 Is Not an Old Person Problem

Yves here. Nassim Nicholas Taleb shreds the misguided logic behind Covid age-ism. And that’s before getting to the fact that in South Africa, the notion that the old are more likely to get really sick is simply not true: The newscaster starts by describing an “exponential” rise in cases, then interviews the head of ICU […]

Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out

How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.

McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid

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Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities

The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.

US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well

Despite promoters’ claims, infrastructure projects often aren’t great public successes.

The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries

Now that Congress is showing interest in taking back its control of war powers, it could look at stealh warmaking via mercenaries too.

The Moral Hazard of Limited Liability

Some concrete ideas for how to pin the tail of the limited liability donkey back on key insiders, and make regulators accountable.

Quelle Surprise! New Study Confirms that Public Pension Funds Use Flattering Benchmarks to Hide Failure to Beat Simple Indexing; CalPERS Is a Case Study

Documenting yet another way public pensions funds lie to themselves and their many constituencies about their performance.

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Category Archives: Moral hazard

Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties

Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out

McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid

Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities

US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well

The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries

The Moral Hazard of Limited Liability

Quelle Surprise! New Study Confirms that Public Pension Funds Use Flattering Benchmarks to Hide Failure to Beat Simple Indexing; CalPERS Is a Case Study

Robinhood’s Revealing Ad Pitch: We’re All Investors, Alone

Bill Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (Part 1/9)

What is the Bullshit Economy?

Guantánamo Prisoner to Joe Biden: ‘The Last Two Decades of My Life Have Been a Nightmare Without End’

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