How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
REITs are considered “passive” investors but play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like hospitals
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UPS Drivers Demand AC in Trucks Following Heat Wave: ‘It’s Like Walking Into Hell’
Delivery drivers work in what ought to be illegal conditions. Will anything change?
Read more...Biden’s Climate Emergency: Will He Declare It?
Biden has put the idea of using the National Emergency Act to declare a climate emergency in play. What are its odds of happening?
Read more...Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For
The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...Excluding Insulin From Drug Price Reform a ‘Slap in the Face,’ Advocates Say
Schumer should reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats reconciliation bill
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Biden’s FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers and Is Poised to Thwart More Consolidation Attempts
The Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.
Read more...How Sustainable Manufacturing Could Help Reduce the Environmental Impact of Industry
A short overview of sustainable manufacturing, an idea whose time ought to have come.
Read more...Groundhog Day For America’s Energy Grid
More energy woes coming to some parts of the US due to the failure to address known infrastructure problems.
Read more...What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...Some Quick Thoughts About Russia’s Resilience and America’s Malaise
Seeking reader input on preliminary hypotheses on why Russia is faring better than expected under the sanctions while the US is suffering.
Read more...How Organized Labor Leads the Fight for Safer Workplaces
Workers forming unions at Amazon and Starbucks want better wages and benefits and other labor protections union workers enjoy every day.
Read more...Rishi Sunak Could Become PM. Here’s What He Doesn’t Want You to Know
From offshore dealings to right-wing think tanks, a guide to Rishi Sunak, the man who could become the UK’s richest PM
Read more...Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.
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