ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”
Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care
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Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings
Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.
Read more...Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
Read more...Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator
When you thought the US might finally have hit bottom on the China front, we show we can reach new lows.
Read more...The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth
The bloody war in Ukraine has reached the carnage phase, as least for Urkaine’s men and their backers.
Read more...Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent
Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.
Read more...Blinken-Qin Talks in Beijing: US and China Agree to Keep Talking Past Each Other
Readouts from a meeting between Anthony Blinken and his counterpart Qin Gang indicate the US and China are barely communicating.
Read more...To His Last Breath, Daniel Ellsberg Fought to Save the World
Paul Jay on Ellsberg: “Dan fearlessly risked everything in his unwavering quest for social justice and opposition to war. “
Read more...Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance
A deep dive into why big money players have become critical to big corruption.
Read more...Why Student Debt Is So High
The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?
Read more...Correcting the Record on the Origin Story of Beowulf’s Trillion Dollar Coin
What it says on the tin, or rather the platinum.
Read more...Michael Hudson at Global University, Hong Kong, on Ukraine, Europe, China, and the Dollar’s Future
Michael Hudson gives a globe-spanning look at recent economic and geopolitical events.
Read more...“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?”
In a new book, George DeMartino offers some novel and pointed criticisms of economics, focusing on societal damage.
Read more...The War on Terror’s Lingering Pain
The war on terror’s high costs are buried in the US.
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