Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Jonesing on Carbon

A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.

The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility

Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Rise in Air Pollution Fuels Antibiotic Resistance, Study Suggests

Yet another reason to take air quality seriously.

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.

Angus Deaton on How Neoliberal Ideology Produced Abject US Falling Life Expectancy for Less Educated

Angus Deaton returns to his deaths of despair theme, with updated data and a pointed critique of the role of Chicago School libertarians.

The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?

What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.

Energy Destinies – Part 8: Pathways

Satyajit Das concludes his series on the future of energy by looking at curbing demand, aka radical conseration.