Car Dealers Warn Biden Administration to Pump Brakes on EV Plans
Auto dealers throw cold water on EV uptake hopium.
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What Does Mustard Gas Have in Common with Crypto and Blockchain?
In Let Them Eat Crypto, Peter Howson warns that these schemes are fraudulent and causing indefensible harm to both humanity and the planet.
Read more...Biden Administration’s Limit on Drug Industry Middlemen Backfires, Pharmacists Say
“Biden Administration initiative backfires” is almost a default title. But here, the consequences for pharmacies and patients are significant
Read more...Could It Be the Fed’s Mega-QE Created So Much Liquidity That Tightening Doesn’t Work until this Excess Gets Burned Up?
Financial Conditions loosen further: credit markets blow off the Fed to make sure “higher for longer” gets entrenched? That would be funny.
Read more...Jim Chanos: “The Crypto Ecosystem Is Well-Suited for the Dark Side of Finance.”
The famed short-seller talks Sam Bankman-Fried, why Wall Street is still so keen on crypto, and how technology is making us dumber
Read more...The Fed’s Bank Capital Three-Card Monte: Undermines Tighter Rules by Allowing Synthetic Risk Transfers to Famed Hedge Fund Bad Actors Like Magnetar, Ares
The Fed again seems unable to contain its bad impulses.
Read more...Biomedical Science versus Biomedicine, a Continuing Series
A case study of biomedical science progress against cystic fibrosis, and the resulting “biomedicine” profiteering.
Read more...Credit Suisse Forced Marriage Gins Up $9 Billion in Legal Claims in Addition to RICO/Swiss Law Suit for Longstanding Misconduct and Crimes; Amicus Brief by Better Markets Supports RICO Claim
Is Credit Suisse going to become the Jarndyce and Jarndyce of failed bank litigation?
Read more...Amid Regulatory Gaps, Telehealth Prescribers Flourish
Who’s regulating Telehealth drug sales?
Read more...Even Rich Nations Now Worried About ISDS
Yves here. In the US, Public Citizen deserves a great deal of credit for turning policy-makers against the multinational-favoring, national-law-and-regulation-gutting “free trade agreement known as ISDS, or “investor state dispute settlement. These disputes are arbitrated by secret panels with no appeal and pro-corporate cronies acting as deciders. Public Citizen’s relentless digging got key bad facts […]
Read more...The Dirty Secret Behind the Hydrogen Hype
Despite promises of opportunity and jobs, communities slated for hydrogen projects oppose these handouts for the fossil fuel industry
Read more...Theories of Economic Crises
How different economic theories, or more accurately, stories, about crises, have profound impact on policy.
Read more...Action Delayed, Justice Denied by Voluntary ESG Approach
A useful debunking of the consultant-enriching, board-distracting, and potentially regulatory-underming con known as ESG investing.
Read more...The Future of Mining Is Deeper, Darker, and Riskier
As mining companies delve ever deeper into the Earth, new tools — from AI to metal-eating microbes — will guide the way.
Read more...“Effective Altruism” Network Infiltrates Congress, Federal Agencies to Create Silicon Valley Favoring AI Policies
How Silicon Valley has taken over the AI agenda in the Beltway, for fun and above all, profit.
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