Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Parsing some US coronavirus data.
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Contact Tracing Via Old Shoe-Leather Epidemiology While Spurning the Techno-Fix Fairy: How Hong Kong Quells COVID-19 Without Killing Civil Liberties
Countries jostle to surrender civil liberties to a techno-fix app to quell COVID-19, but should instead heed Hong Kong’s low-tech lesson.
Read more...Wall Street’s Useful Idiot: Financial Times Shills for CLOs….as Fed Hasn’t Bailed Them Out
A major story on the CLOs chooses not to address the key questions.
Read more...Reminder: When the Very Very Rich Are Done With Us, They Plan to Leave Us Behind
More evidence, as if you needed it, that the super rich are not your friends.
Read more...America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
The US is willing to practice human sacrifice, rather than explore a way of defining wealth outlined by 19th-century thinker John Ruskin.
Read more...Reopening Isn’t Reopening—It’s Cutting Off Unemployment
In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
Read more...Congress and Corporations Join Forces To Crush American Small Business
Funny how that small business bailout worked…..
Read more...Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
Read more...The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results
Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
Read more...Testing and the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Looking at state (non) progress on Covid-19.
Read more...US Commercial Real Estate Prices Plunged in April, Mall Prices Collapsed
Looking at the bloodbath in commercial real estate…..and worse is almost certainly in store.
Read more...Early Precautions Draw a Life-and-Death Divide Between Flushing and Corona
Why two Queens neighborhoods, Flushing and Corona, had very different Covid-19 outcomes.
Read more...From the Blitz to COVID-19, Our Rulers Have Got Us Wrong
Covid-19 as yet another opporutnity for elite prejudice.
Read more...Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests
The Coronavirus stress test has laid bare a market that is broken, lacking the ability to attend to the public health at a time of desperate need and with a government unwilling — in some ways unable — to force it to do so.
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