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.
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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.
Read more...Coronavirus Magical Thinking, US Style: Contact Tracing Versus Masks
With bad coronavirus outcomes, America seems set on continuing to do dumb things.
Read more...Public Schools Collapsing into a Zoom Heap
The true cost of shuttered schools.
Read more...Surgical Masks: From Protection to Fashion?
A random walk through the world of masks.
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Over. Welcome to the Era of Neo-Illiberalism!
Big tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will the virus have on this new status quo?
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