The Brave New World of Employment Under AI……What About Countervailing Forces?
Why AI still has some growth pains coming.
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Regulatory Fight Over Ultraprocessed Foods Starting in the US
There’s controversy over how good a proxy the degree of food processing is for the nutritional value of food. Nevertheless, there is also substantial evidence that the category of ultraprocessed, which includes some arguably not-bad offerings like whole grain bread,1 contribute in a big way to bad health outcomes. The US, with its large food […]
Read more...Odds of US Bank Failures Rise with Office Space Loan Losses, Fed Interest Rate Mismanagement
US bank pain: Loans for urban office buildings come a cropper as they were already suffering other interest rate losses.
Read more...Monsanto’s ‘Cancer Index’, an Alleged Conspiracy, and New PCB-Related Complaints
Monsanto is targeted for cancer liability via an alleged collusion with GE over indemnification for PCBs, including the use of a cancer index
Read more...Older Americans Say They Feel Trapped in Medicare Advantage Plans
More on why you should not get a Medicare Advantage plan if at all possible.
Read more...We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt
Michael Hudson reprises favorite themes, particularly the role of rentiers and debt dynamics, with some new tidbits.
Read more...Huge Capital Investment Required for U.S. Electric Industry’s Decarbonization
Electric utilities face massive costs to end their use of fossil fuels in power generation. What does that mean for consumers and the public?
Read more...Migrants Are Begging in Brooklyn Neighborhoods That Voted for Trump, Sparking Hostility and Help
Nextdoor and Facebook groups present anecdotes and photos from Marine Park of encounters with migrants from a nearby shelter complex. Others are providing aid.
Read more...Science on Trial, Part 1
A new paper dissects how the Covid crisis demonstrated the failings in how science is practiced now. But are its suggestions for improvement bold enough?
Read more...Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Read more...Is Neoliberalism Really Dead? Or Does It Live on Like a Zombie?
Neoliberalism is still doing a fine job of zombifying economies, but the doctrine sadly is in rude health.
Read more...CDC’s Weak and Vague N95 Guidelines Endanger Health Workers, Conflict with Cal/OSHA Standards
In the Covid version of fiddling while Rome burns, cheap hospital systems hide behind the CDC to avoid issuing N95s to front line workers
Read more...Tips Tricks Dampen Delivery Worker Celebration of New $18-an-Hour Wage
Delivery platforms DoorDash and UberEats immediately retaliated against a NYC-madated wage increase by redoing their apps to undermine tips.
Read more...Patents and Intellectual Property in Biomedical Science: A History in Two Tales
How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.
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