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.
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Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 2/2
Bob Smith got the Watergate break-in leak before the Washington Post. But the New York Times, then as now, avoids tough political stories.
Read more...Congress Moves to Reclaim Its War Powers
Congress has roused itself from its stupor over our undeclared, or more accurately, unapproved wars. But will much change?
Read more...Is the UK Back in Lockdown?
Another theory about the apparent decline in UK Covid cases right after Freedom Day.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: What Climate Change Reformers Get Wrong
Climate change activists too often wind up bypassing core issues. Here are a couple of them.
Read more...Industrial Policy Coming Into Vogue After China Cleans US Clock by Using It
Industrial policy is an idea whose time has arrived in DC. Too bad the thinking seems stuck in the fad-chashing phase.
Read more...Fed Up With Democrats, Thousands March to Demand Medicare for All
More voters recognize that the Democrats will do squat about expanded health coverage like Medicare for All unless they feel some heat
Read more...Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers
Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench
Read more...Grassroots Fight for $15 Movement Has Won $150 Billion in Raises for Millions of Workers, Study Shows
The campaign to raise the hourly wage to $15 has been racking up successes, even if the press doesn’t much take notice.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
Read more...Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
Read more...Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Read more...U.S. Vaccine Diplomat Cajoles Producers to Support Low-Cost Off-Shore Vaccine Hubs
The Biden administration should push the WTO to waive COVID vaccine patents before heading off for vacation and encourage U.S. producers to ramp up low-cost vaccine production worldwide.
Read more...Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
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