“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...Category Archives: Pandemic
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...COVID-19 ‘Please Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,’ Nurse Pleads
A nurse speaks from one of the Covid-19 mask battlegrounds.
Read more...Universities in a Mess Over Upcoming Year; Some Reopenings Meeting Fierce Resistance
Universities face an anxious and meager school year.
Read more...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...How Largely Hidden Trends Are Shattering the Global Trade System
Howy national conflicts, new concerns about security and supply chain risk, and technology are reshaping trade networks to be closer to home.
Read more...Is Donald Trump Likely to Resign?
Looking at some underrated Trump weaknesses.
Read more...“A Scandal’: Contracts Show Trump Giving Big Pharma Free Rein to Price Gouge Taxpayer-Funded Coronavirus Drugs
Drug price gouging is so widespread in the US that it seems unlikely that there will be enough outrage to limit coronavirus drug price gouging.
Read more...Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic
A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About the Fed’s New Credit Allocation Policy
Why using credit as an economic remedy evenutally does more harm than good.
Read more...Beneath the Bluster, Boris Johnson’s ‘New Deal’ Offers Nothing New
Boris Johnson’s effort at a New Deal Big Lie goes splat.
Read more...Los Angeles Hit Hard by Implosion of Freelance Work
The collapse of high-end freelance work isn’t just about the loss of incomes. If it persists long enough, it means the loss of capabilities.
Read more...Do Cry for Those in Arizona: What Happens When Politicians Disregard Health Care and Public Health Professionals During a Pandemic
How Arizona epitomizes the backwards approach the US has taken to its health care crisis.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Interview with Léa El Azzi on Capitalism After the Pandemic, Europe, Greece, Lebanon & the IMF
A discussion of the state of capitailsm, with a European/Lebanase slant.
Read more...New Investment Gimmickry: Covid-19 Bonds
Covid-19 has engendered investment grifting.
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