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Global Covid-19 Cases Top 10 Million As HHS Secretary Warns ‘Window is Closing’ to Get Disease Back Under Control in US

HHS Secretary Alex Azar concedes the US may have lost control of the COVID-19 pandemic after a surge in cases.

Pentagon Porks Up as Covid-19 Bleeds Economy

Quelle surprise! Pentagon grifting continues apace, even in the face of a full-bore domestic crisis.

Waste Watch: Plastic Free July in the Age of COVID-19

As COVID-19 swamps the world, other problems remain. Commit to a plastic free July and mitigate the world’s plastic problem.

Bayer Agrees to $10.9 Billion Glyphosate Settlement

Bayer agrees to $10.9 billion glyphosate settlement, resolving much pending US litigation. The company still faces European woes.

‘Downright Dangerous’: Trump Moves to End Federal Support for Testing Sites as US Sees Record Daily Spike in Covid-19 Infections

Trump administration moves to curtail COVID testing – on theory that if there’s no test showing the tree fell in the forest, it did not fall.

America Sits on Its Hands as Covid-19 Cases Rise

More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.

Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?

A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.

Board Member Margaret Brown Sues CalPERS, Board President Over Gang-Style Retaliation for Efforts to Oppose Its Incompetence

Board member Margaret Brown has finally had it with CalPERS’ dirty tricks.

Dogpiling Taibbi and the Dearth of the Free Press

A cri de couer on sorting the news

The Economy Isn’t About Money. It’s About Putting Food on the Table

Our Enlightenment predecessors recognized not one but five economies – and the pandemic has reinvigorated our taste for them.

Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right

vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.

The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out

Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]