Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health

A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?

Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings

Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.

A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves

Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.

Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds

The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.

Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent

Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.

Mammoth RICO Lawsuit Targets Credit Suisse, Many of its Directors and Execs, and KPMG for Over a Decade of Fraudulent, Reckless Conduct

Credit Suisse, or more accurately, buyer UBS, some execs/board members, and KPMG are targets in a monster RICO suit.

Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance

A deep dive into why big money players have become critical to big corruption.

Why Student Debt Is So High

The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?

Powell on the New Hawkishness in the Dot Plot and on Inflation: “We See that it Tells Us that We Need to Do More”

The Fed’s Powell: Core inflation “has not really moved down. It has not reacted much to our rate hikes. We’re going to have to keep at it.”

Energy Destinies – Part 1: Power Needs and Sources – Balancing Barrels

Satyajit Das provides a series on the energy transition, starting with the historical role of energy and supply and demand patterns.

How This Regional Bank Mortgage Lender Crisis is Different

Every bank crisis has its own overarching narrative and streams of sub-narratives that course through the marketplace day to day.

Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding

More pillaging of America, here in hospitals in flyover, where it won’t be noticed much before those practices start moving to the core.

Booming Solar Industry Has An Unresolved Waste Problem

Solar panels have a roughly 15 year life. Where do they go to die? The answers now are not very good.

As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack

Osteopaths are increasingly stepping into the primary care gap produced by MDs who increasingly go into lucrative specialities.

Wall Street Journal Aids Vulture Investors Threatening Second Mortgage Borrowers With Foreclosure….on (Nearly Always) Legally Unenforceable Debt

Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.