Store Drop-Off: Another Recycling Fail
WalMart’s misleading claims about recycling set back efforts to shift away from unnecessary plastic packaging and single-use plastics.
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How the U.S. Lost National Healthcare
An excerpt from Kai Bird’s just released book about U.S. health care, The Outlier.
Read more...Private Inequity: NYT Examines How the Private Equity Industry Avoids Taxes
Comprehensive NYT story examines how the private equity industry games the tax system, while the hapless IRS stands on the sidelines.
Read more...Starbucks Launches Reusable Cup Program
Starbucks rolls out a reusable cups initiative in some markets and restarts programs suspended during the pandemic- much more is needed.
Read more...New York State Senate Passes Right to Repair Bill
The New York State Senate passed a comprehensive electronics right to repair measure, but the legislative session ended without State Assembly Action, so the legislation remains stalled.
Read more...Standard Inflation Theory Leaves Out Social Conflict and Costs
What That Means For Biden’s Inflation Policy Trilemma
Read more...Parking Reform Could Reenergize Downtowns – Here’s What Happened When Buffalo Changed its Zoning Rule
Rezoning cities to prioritize people instead of parking would free more space for affordable housing and encourage use of public transportation.
Read more...A Nation that Runs on Bribes: Civics Lessons from our Vaccine Rollout
If we start bribing citizens to get vaccinated, what else are we going to end up needing to bribe them to do?
Read more...Keystone XL Developer Abandons Pipeline Project
In an apparent victory for environmentalists, the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has pulled the plug on the project.
Read more...Book Review: “Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives”
Maxims for ownership, because markets.
Read more...Washington Post Publisher Says Biden DOJ ‘Intensified’ Trump-Era Attacks on Press Freedom
“The egregious acts by the outgoing Trump Justice Department, and the apparent doubling down on them during the Biden administration, should alarm all Americans, regardless of political persuasion.”
Read more...UN Report Assesses Dire State of Global Soil Pollution
The UN last week issued a report assessing the dire state the world’s soil. The calls to action are inadequate to the scale of the problem.
Read more...Environmental Activists Call on Biden Administration to Pursue Ratification of the Basel Convention to Block U.S. Exports of Plastics and e-Waste
California lawmakers and NGOs call on the Biden administration to press for U.S. ratification of the 1989 Basel Convention and subsequent amendments.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Oh Lordy, Yellen Comes Out for Higher Interest Rates: “A Plus for Society’s Point of View and the Fed’s Point of View”
“We want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment.
Read more...Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
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