Reconstructing US-China Relations
Can the US and China be friends, or at least not so hostile? Jeffrey Sachs has some ideas.
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Quelle Surprise! New Study Confirms that Public Pension Funds Use Flattering Benchmarks to Hide Failure to Beat Simple Indexing; CalPERS Is a Case Study
Documenting yet another way public pensions funds lie to themselves and their many constituencies about their performance.
Read more...The Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord
More worries about Delta.
Read more...UNESCO Strips Liverpool of World Heritage Status
Liverpool now seeks to have UNESCO’s decision deferred or overturned at a meeting scheduled to occur in July.
Read more...Federal Judge Upholds Indiana University’s COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement
Trump district court appointee hands down first ruling upholding public university COVID-19 vaccine mandates on public health grounds.
Read more...Are We Prepared for Pandora’s Box of Climate Catastrophes?
There’s still time to avoid the climate catastrophe we have set in motion, but it’s going to take drastic behaviour change and huge grassroots pressure on governments.
Read more...World’s Coral Scientists Warn Action is Needed Now to Save Even a Few Reefs from Climate Change
Coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine. The collapse of these ecosystems is the first unequivocally tied to climate change.
Read more...DoJ Bankruptcy Trustee Lambastes Provisions to Protect Sacklers in Purdue Bankruptcy Exit Plan as “Illegal”
Feds weigh in on Purdue bankruptcy plan, raising possibility that Sacklers won’t get off more or less scot-free for their role in the opioids crisis.
Read more...As UN Human Rights Chief Urges Stricter Rules, Snowden Calls for End to Spyware Trade
An investigation revealing abuse of NSO Group’s Pegasus malware led Snowden to declare: “This is an industry that should not exist.”
Read more...Haiti Ruling Families Create and Kill Monsters
How Haiti is a fiefdom for gangs and foreigners pilfering the country’s natural resources.
Read more...California Senate Shoots Down CalPERS’ Private Debt Secrecy Bill; Board Hissy Fit Reveals It Never Questioned Staff Misrepresentations
CalPERS is no longer being given the benefit of the doubt by the legislature, and can’t handle a request to ‘splain itself.
Read more...Bad News About Iran and Nuclear Deal
Oof, Biden blows the chance to keep relations with Iran from moving further in the wrong direction by capitulating to his hardliners.
Read more...Robinhood’s Revealing Ad Pitch: We’re All Investors, Alone
The latest Robinhood campaign is more raspberry than rah rah.
Read more...The Conflict Within OPEC Is Far From Over
Another byproduct of inflation generally and rising gas prices in particular is more eyes on OPEC.
Read more...When Counterculture Goes Mainstream: A Dispatch from the 2021 Bitcoin Conference
How Bitcoin hard-core loyalists see the future of their project.
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