Plastics Watch: Annie’s Homegrown Vows to Eliminate Ortho-Phthalates from Its Mac and Cheese
Annie’s Homegrown ventures where FDA has feared to tread and vowed to eliminate phthalates from its macaroni and cheese.
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Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Yves here. The collateral damage of the Texas power grid power failures is getting worse and worse. Extensive burst pipes now mean that 14 million (no typo) are without potable water. From the Wall Street Journal: More than 14 million people in Texas are without safe drinking water, as the fallout of a severe winter […]
Read more...Chief GameStop Tout and Registered Representative Keith Gill, Target of Class Action Suit, at Congressional Hearings Today
The leader of the GameStop short squeeze, Keith Gill, should have anticipated that he was running legal risks as a securities professional.
Read more...Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance
Why you should be very, very worried when our supposed betters start talking up the newest neoliberal Trojan horse, global governance.
Read more...Waste Watch: News from the U.S. and the Maldives
The Maldives and the U.S. are each grappling with managing their packaging waste; beware those who tout the EPR panacea.
Read more...Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing
Amazon has much to answer for, like wage theft and brutal workplace condidtion, and is throwing its muscle behind not being held to account.
Read more...Why U.S. Labor Laws Need a Major Update—The PRO Act Is a Great Start
Biden is proposing some significant changes to labor law. Does the legislation live up to its billing?
Read more...Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible for Many Americans
How Big Food increases prices in categories like bread, beer, processed chicken, and packaged salad, and what to do about it.
Read more...Goldman Is Evil But McKinsey Is Worse
Why the McKinsey veneer is looking tattier and tattier with every passing day, and why that’s not likely to change.
Read more...Will 2021 Be the Year for the Right to Repair?
Will 2021 be the year that sees many states adopt a right to repair? Farmers may be the first to benefit, with digital consumers next.
Read more...Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan to Save the Internet: Give Us Back Control of Our Data
Tim Berners-Lee endorses data sovereignty, to give individuals the power to control their own data, to counter big tech’s overreach.
Read more...Betsy DeVos Is Gone, But Her Education Agenda Is Rolling Out Across the Country
Even though Betty DeVos was depicted as a textbook ogre, her education privatization agenda is advancing as if it were perfectly respectable.
Read more...More on the GameStop Short Squeeze: GME Myths Busted
Explaining why some of the nefarious theories about the evil GME short sellers are all wet.
Read more...Some Implications of the GameStop Short Squeeze
The seeming success of the GameStop short-slayers could in the long run come at high cost to some of them and most of us.
Read more...How Financial Markets Shape Social Values and Political Views
Whocoulddanode? Investing in financial assets produces a more conservative outlook.
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