How Cloud Services Allow Tech Titans to Act as Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
Regulators largely ignore the cloud services industry, despite high concentration, lack of transparency, and potential for predation.
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The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking.
Read more...Australian State Government Bails Out Owners of Taxi Licenses After Uber Destroys Their Value
The NSW government allowed Uber’s illegal market entry and now makes consumers pay to bail out taxi license owners. Having paid to bail out taxi owners, the NSW taxi industry will nonetheless be completely deregulated.
Read more...Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures
Private equity continued to buy up and crapify more medical specialist practices. The latest target is eye care, particularly surgeries.
Read more...New USPS Delivery Network: Radically Cutting Rural Service, Headcount; Likely to Further Slow Delivery
The gutting of USPS is accelerating. A step backwards for what passes as American civilization.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Time to Blow Up the Electricity Markets
How the EU’s neoliberal Rube Goldberg electricity market has made the energy shortage problem much worse than it needed to be.
Read more...Using the Payments System to Enforce an Russian Oil Price Cap Likely to Cause Supply Shock
The G7 plans to use its payments system to enforce a Russian oil price cap, because that worked so well in the shock and awe sanctions.
Read more...Congressional Sausagemaking, or How Inflation Reduction Became Fossil Fuel Export Promotion
How Manchin and Sinema got dirty energy goodies and financier breaks into the Inflation Reduction Act.
Read more...New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages
A new Nature study lends weight to the idea that federal agencies could be much more aggressive in regulating climate pollutants.
Read more...Chokepoint Capitalism Strangles Us All
Capitalism works in insidiuous ways.
Read more...Europe’s Economic Controlled Flight Into Terrain
More on Europe’s economic suicide.
Read more...The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges
Will a smart grid alleviate US power woes?
Read more...The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.
DeSmog has mapped the fossil fuel interests lobbying for gas-derived hydrogen and threatening to derail the momentum of green hydrogen.
Read more...‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response
Yves here. This is the first time I’ve come across the People’s CDC, and I like the cut of their jib. They have a series of demands for Covid action. And while continued “access” to vaccines is on the list, it’s their dead last action item, with N95 masks and ventilation and testing and improved […]
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