Fracking Fallout: Is America’s Drinking Water Safe?
After many years, concerns about the impact of fracking on aquifers are finally going mainstream.
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Quelle Surprise! Bank Too Big to Fail Problem Not Solved as Lobbyists Scheme to Make It Worse
Bank lobbyists want to weaken bank regulations even after rich stakeholders in recent “not-to-big-to-fail “bank failures were rescued.
Read more...Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth
Workers adjust their immediate labour supply in response to the income effects caused by changes to future pensions.
Read more...Will ‘Poor Man’s Cocaine’ Fuel the Next U.S. Drug Crisis?
The cheap and highly addictive cocaine-like stimulant Captagon shows signs of following in the opioid fentanyl’s footsteps.
Read more...Some States Fighting Medicare Plan to Require Minimum Staffing in Nursing Homes
Sadly, there is pushback against a proposed Medicare rule to assure (barely) adequate staffing in nursing homes. Please comment in favor!
Read more...How the Fed Created the Post-2008 Global Safety Net for Banks
The “liquidity” support provided by the Fed to megabanks through cross-border lending in fact acted as subsidies.
Read more...Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Engage in Blatant Price Gouging as FTC Investigates and Some Health Plans Rebel
Demand that state legislators investigate pharmacy benefit manager price-gouging for biologics like Humira when cheaper biosimilars exist
Read more...The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Read more...Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition
Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs
Read more...How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed shareholder value ideology.
Read more...BMW: Gasoline Car Ban Poses “Imminent Risk” To European Automakers
BMW warns that the 2035 EU mandate to end sales of new fossil fuel vehicles will be a mass death event for most EU car makers
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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