Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change

Why the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency looks more like hacker than jurisprudence.

The Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just the Sacklers’ Fault – and Making Purdue Pharma Pay Isn’t Enough on Its Own to Fix the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Deeper Problems

Focusing on the Sacklers as villains obscures the problems that permeate the entire pharmaceutical industry.

PredictIt: The Closing of a Prediction Market

PredictIt is likely to shutter. A look at how contract holders may win or lose, as well as the loss of a window into voter sentiment.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-One: Uber’s Legitimate Cumulative Losses Top $32 Billion; P&L Improvements Driven by Much Higher Fares and Multi-Billion Dollar Transfers From Drivers to Shareholders

Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.

The Dying American Southwest

Will people abandon the American Southwest or fight like hell to keep it?

How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals

REITs are considered “passive” investors but play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like hospitals

Biden’s Climate Emergency: Will He Declare It?

Biden has put the idea of using the National Emergency Act to declare a climate emergency in play. What are its odds of happening?

Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For

The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.

“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”

On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.

Excluding Insulin From Drug Price Reform a ‘Slap in the Face,’ Advocates Say

Schumer should reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats reconciliation bill

Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War

Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?

Biden’s FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers and Is Poised to Thwart More Consolidation Attempts

The Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.

Groundhog Day For America’s Energy Grid

More energy woes coming to some parts of the US due to the failure to address known infrastructure problems.