Private Equity: The Perps Behind Destructive Hospital Surprise Billing
How private equity ginned up yet another abuse.
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Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #4 in Detroit (Second Night)
Open thread on the debate.
Read more...Carbon Dividends: A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Yves here. Carbon dividends are a way to create support for setting a price for carbon. None other than those starry-eyed granola heads at Financial Times called for setting a price for carbon in 2007. Pigovian taxes (ones meant to discourage activity, like transactions taxes) should typically not be seen as revenue generators, since you […]
Read more...Financial Times Goes Wobbly on Brexit No Deal Impact
Is a flabby Financial Times story just a case of a piece not coming together, or is the pink paper pulling its punches on Brexit?
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #3 in Detroit (First Night)
Open thread on the debate.
Read more...Reclaiming the Commons Through State Ownership? Maybe Not
Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. Local, democratic and sustainable alternatives offer better protection.
Read more...Brexit: Can Anyone Take the Wheel From Johnson?
Johnson is committing the UK to a no deal Brexit. What could stop him?
Read more...Hospitals Squeal Like Stuck Pigs Over Trump Proposal to Force Disclosure of Insurance Company Discounts
A Trump proposal to force some price transparency on hospitals has them hopping mad.
Read more...The “Existential Battle” Is for Control of the Democratic Party
Democratic Party operatives would have voters focus on Trump, as opposed to the batttle within their party over the Sanders-led effort to implement policies that serve Americans broadly, not the top 10% .
Read more...Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
Read more...Roundup Roundup: Judge Slashes Punitive Damages Award in Glyphosate Lawsuit
A third judge reduced the eye-popping punitive damages award in a glyphosate lawsuit; Bayer faces a plethora of pending cases and potential huge liability.
Read more...Brexit: Boris Johnson’s Impossibility Theorem
No one is blinking in the Brexit staredown.
Read more...Trump Promised Massive Infrastructure Projects—Instead We’ve Gotten Nothing
Even budget hawks ought to embrace infrastructure spending, since those projects typically produce $3 of tax revenues for every $1 spent when there’s a backlog, as we clearly have in the US. So what is Trump’s excuse?
Read more...Nobel Economist Angus Deaton: Inequality is Destroying Democratic Capitalism
Angus Deaton argues that the present level of inequality is a threat to “democratic capitalism” but contends that historically, even more severe inequality has been reversed.
Read more...The Politics of CEOs
Quelle surprise! CEOs back parties with an eye to increasing their own power.
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