The Situation in Puerto Rico: The Roads
Efforts to repair the road system in Puerto Rico seem grossly incommensurate to the scope and degree of the damage.
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Why Those Looking for the Next Crisis May be Looking in the Wrong Places
More and more experts are nattering nervously about market risk and occasionally using the “crisis” word. What are the potential hazards?
Read more...Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s Forked Tongue on Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
It is an insult to intelligence for Steven Mnuchin to claim that the Trump tax plan isn’t a sop to the rich. That’s the GOP’s raison d’etre.
Read more...Rajoy Goes Nuclear on Catalonia’s Separatists, Seeks Suspension of Autonomy, National Takeover of Local Police and Public Broadcasting; Political and Economic Risk High
Spain’s prime minister Rajoy has set in motion a takeover of the government in Catalonia. What might happen next?
Read more...Worst Health Care Revolving Door Case So Far, Version 2.0? – From President of Lilly USA to US Secretary of Health and Human Services?
Trump is managing the difficult task of setting new lows in the revolving door category.
Read more...Can Manipulating the Prices of ObamaCare’s “Silver” Plans Prevent Trump’s CSR Cuts from Having Any Impact?
ObamaCare subsidies are indexed to the price of Silver plans. This creates some counter-intuitive results.
Read more...The “Copper” (Catastrophic) Health Insurance Plans in the Alexander-Murray Bill
Considered as a mechanism of delivering health care, Copper heath insurance plans fall short.
Read more...Fossil Fuel Misinformation Helps Quash Community Effort to Ban Fracking in Youngstown, Ohio
Fossil fuel industry promotes the idea that elections are not a good use of public funds.
Read more...Can Theatre Change Your Mind?
The potential and the limits of theatre and other art forms to combat confirmation bias.
Read more...Brexit Was a Cry of Financial Pain and Not the Influence of the Old
A new analysis of why voters decided for or against Brexit.
Read more...May Rebuffed in Personal Brexit Lobbying in Brussels, Yet Much of UK Press Spins Otherwise
The latest Brexit follies….
Read more...The Case of the Spitting Legionnaire
How the “spitting on our veterans” meme is a remarkable and complete inversion of the facts.
Read more...On Iran, Trump Follows Iraq War Neocons
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on why Trump is trying to decertify Iran even though he has admitted Iran is fully compliant with its agreement.
Read more...Balloon Dog (Orange): The Art of a Health Care Deal
What a health care solution space looks like to our highly transactional President.
Read more...May to Plead With Merkel as Brexit Deadlocks Domestically Too; New Data Shows UK Lacks Foreign Reserves, Meaning Even More Vulnerable to Brexit
New data showing that the UK has negative net foreign assets throws even more cold water on the idea of a Glorious Brexit.
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