How Economists Distorted Economic Theory to Help Big Companies Get Bigger
Economists had to play fast and loose with economic theory to deploy their merger “efficiency” arguments.
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Technotage on the Rise? More Efforts to Stymie Job-Threatening, Sometimes Hazardous “Innovations”
Ant-technology action, or technotage, seems to be increasing. Is this a trend or just coincidence?
Read more...Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System
Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage
How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.
Read more...Jonesing on Carbon
A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.
Read more...The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction
Read more...A Peek at Big Pharma’s Playbook That Leaves Many Americans Unable to Afford Their Drugs
The Biden Adminstration has implemented some modest curbs on drug prices. Big Pharma is fighting a rearguard action in court.
Read more...Interview: Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis
Some promising approaches to reducing gun violence.
Read more...Scientism as a Non-Solution to a Problem that Should Not Exist vs. Science as a Solution to a Problem that Must Be Fixed
KLG continues his investigation of scientism by looking at two canard-infested areas: plastic recycling and industial food production.
Read more...GE, Bayer, Blamed for Child’s Cancer in a Community Awash in PCB Pollution
Is PCB-induded health damage about to become a major litigation front?
Read more...How to Fix Monetary Policy in Advanced Countries
The monetary policy of major central banks in advanced economies have had negative consequences and thus need to be fixed.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Full Commercialization of Robotaxis Arrives in San Francisco
After sinking billions of dollars into robotaxis, these companies are under pressure to show significant revenues.
Read more...FDA Tries to Pretend It Didn’t Oppose Ivermectin Use for Covid
The FDA attempts to distance itself from its earlier hostility to Ivermectin as a Covid remedy, but too many people have good memories.
Read more...Rise in Air Pollution Fuels Antibiotic Resistance, Study Suggests
Yet another reason to take air quality seriously.
Read more...U.S. And China Locked in an Underwater Cable Tug-of-War
A cable impasse in the South Pacific, due in large part to failings in both US and Chinese legal and enforcement regimes.
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