Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

The Public Shouldn’t Pay for Drugs Twice

Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.

The Best Climate News You May Not Have Heard About

The Montreal Protocol — designed to save the ozone layer — is also averting other global warming/climate damage.

Thieves’ Paradise in Kiev — IMF Admits It Doesn’t Know How Much Ukraine Has Received of $35 Billion in Promised Foreign Cash, or Where the Money Was Spent

It isn’t surprising that IMF funds to Ukraine are lost in action. What is surprising is the IMF isn’t pretending to care.

Stop Worshiping Central Banks

Preoccupied with ‘credibility’ and reputations, central banks are again driving the world into recession, financial turmoil and debt crises.

In Just 44 Days, Liz Truss Has Made the UK Immeasurably Worse

Truss’ legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession.

Campaigners to Biden: ‘Tell Congress to Pass a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax’

“Price gouging from Big Oil is unacceptable and that’s exactly why we need a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax.”

The Sveriges Riksbank Counterfeit Nobel Award Goes to Bernanke et al. for the Wrong Model

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort

Is the UK About to Hit the Wall?

The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.

BMI: The Mismeasure of Weight and the Mistreatment of Obesity

Rigid definitions of obesity can both restrict care for some and produce unwarranted alarms for others.

Bank of England Bought Only Small Amounts of Bonds Even Today, Warns Pension Funds They Have “Only Three Days Left” to Unwind Derivatives with BOE Support

The Bank of England has been doing less than believed to rescue the gilts market. But stil not a good look.

600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now

Plastic damage to oceans is getting worse. But do we have adequate remedies, even if we had the will to implement them?

EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?

the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?

The U.S. Is Preparing Its Response to the “Short-Sighted” Strategy of OPEC+

The US is having a hissy over the OPEC+ production cut. Not a good look.

Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?

Why, as they say in Maine, you can’t get get there from here as far as our green energy plans are concerned.