Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
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Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Read more...Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
Read more...Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Read more...Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout
Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
Read more...Market Capitalism
Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.
Read more...John le Carré Was a 21st Century Writer
Le Carré as a subversive anti-imperialist.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
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