WHO as Arrogant and Blinkered as Ever on #CovidIsAirborne, Tweets by Comms Director Gabby Stern Show
Something rotten in WHO’s Comms Shop.
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US Officials Make Non-Bailout Bailout of Silicon Valley and Signature Bank and Continue Class Warfare
An over-zealous Fed pushed a few banks, including the big and super connected Silicon Valley Bank, over the edge. A bailout was a given.
Read more...Old Man Yells at Mush-Mouth Verbiage
Watch the parking meters.
Read more...Investing in Influence
A corporation’s political strategies are not dictated by profit alone, and regulators concerned with corporate influence should monitor how corporations are governed
Read more...Silicon Valley Bank Fails, With Deposits of Many Venture-Backed Companies Frozen. How Bad Will the Fallout Be?
How severe might the contagion from the Silicon Valley Bank failure be? And who will suffer most: tech land or other banks?
Read more...Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media
Contrasting ideologies at play about the structure and role of social media mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics.
Read more...A Feminist Demand on International Women’s Day: Fire Victoria Nuland
If feminists support this Bush-era neocon simply because she is a woman, Victoria Nuland might just burn down the world in a nuclear fire.
Read more...The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf Worries About Europe’s Future but Oddly Not the US’
Martin Wolf’s musings about what lies in store for Europe has a huge blind spot as far as the US is concerned.
Read more...How Does JK Galbraith’s The New Industrial State Hold Up After 6 Decades?
How John Galbraith correctly called many developments that have had great political and economic significance, like the decline of unions
Read more...“How Stupid Do They Think We Are?” Nord Stream Pipelines Bombing Edition
Shameless Nord Stream spin.
Read more...Equality and Equity
How a word like “equality” has become a bit of a minefield.
Read more...Wall Street Journal: “US Is Not Yet Ready for Great Power Conflict” Yet Still Plots Against China
The US seems obsessed with China, yet effectively admits it is behind and unlikely to catch up. And it too quickly dismisses Russia.
Read more...Why Student Debt Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical
Discuss: “The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness. Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough.”
Read more...America’s Chips War With China: Another Sanctions Backfire Coming?
Biden Administration officials are pleased as punch with their targeting of China’s supposed Achilles heel: dependence on US designed chips.
Read more...What If the World Cannot Save the World from Climate Change?
How climate change reveals a crisis of international governance.
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