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Australian State Government Bails Out Owners of Taxi Licenses After Uber Destroys Their Value

The NSW government allowed Uber’s illegal market entry and now makes consumers pay to bail out taxi license owners. Having paid to bail out taxi owners, the NSW taxi industry will nonetheless be completely deregulated.

Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures

Private equity continued to buy up and crapify more medical specialist practices. The latest target is eye care, particularly surgeries.

New USPS Delivery Network: Radically Cutting Rural Service, Headcount; Likely to Further Slow Delivery

The gutting of USPS is accelerating. A step backwards for what passes as American civilization.

Yanis Varoufakis: Time to Blow Up the Electricity Markets

How the EU’s neoliberal Rube Goldberg electricity market has made the energy shortage problem much worse than it needed to be.

Using the Payments System to Enforce an Russian Oil Price Cap Likely to Cause Supply Shock

The G7 plans to use its payments system to enforce a Russian oil price cap, because that worked so well in the shock and awe sanctions.

Congressional Sausagemaking, or How Inflation Reduction Became Fossil Fuel Export Promotion

How Manchin and Sinema got dirty energy goodies and financier breaks into the Inflation Reduction Act.

New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages

A new Nature study lends weight to the idea that federal agencies could be much more aggressive in regulating climate pollutants.

Chokepoint Capitalism Strangles Us All

Capitalism works in insidiuous ways.

Europe’s Economic Controlled Flight Into Terrain

The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges

Will a smart grid alleviate US power woes?

The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.

DeSmog has mapped the fossil fuel interests lobbying for gas-derived hydrogen and threatening to derail the momentum of green hydrogen.

‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response

Yves here. This is the first time I’ve come across the People’s CDC, and I like the cut of their jib. They have a series of demands for Covid action. And while continued “access” to vaccines is on the list, it’s their dead last action item, with N95 masks and ventilation and testing and improved […]

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Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Australian State Government Bails Out Owners of Taxi Licenses After Uber Destroys Their Value

Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures

Yanis Varoufakis: Time to Blow Up the Electricity Markets

Using the Payments System to Enforce an Russian Oil Price Cap Likely to Cause Supply Shock

Congressional Sausagemaking, or How Inflation Reduction Became Fossil Fuel Export Promotion

New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages

Chokepoint Capitalism Strangles Us All

Europe’s Economic Controlled Flight Into Terrain

The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges

The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.

‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response

We Could Massively Reduce the Price of Energy in the UK – By Changing the Way We Regulate Energy Prices

Record Number of US Households Behind on Energy Bills; Brace for a Cold Winter

Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”

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