‘The Next Flint,’ and America’s Problem with Lead in Its Water
What city will be next to admit it has a lead problem? Why yours might be closer than you think.
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How New York City Has Worked to Protect People from the Deadliest Disaster: Heat
New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.
Read more...Mark Blyth’s Incisive Post-Crisis Takedown: “A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why”
Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.
Read more...The Trump White House Is Upending Decades of Policy-Making Procedures
The Trump Administration really is making things up as it goes along.
Read more...Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal
Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.
Read more...Private Equity: The Perps Behind Destructive Hospital Surprise Billing
How private equity ginned up yet another abuse.
Read more...Signs of Recession Are Hitting Europe—And Its New Central Bank President May Not Be Up for the Challenge
Europe, or more specifically the Eurozone, has a deficient bank regulatory framework which may be tested by economic weakness and wobbly banks. Having Christine Lagarde at the ECB’s helm is not likely to be a plus.
Read more...Carbon Dividends: A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Yves here. Carbon dividends are a way to create support for setting a price for carbon. None other than those starry-eyed granola heads at Financial Times called for setting a price for carbon in 2007. Pigovian taxes (ones meant to discourage activity, like transactions taxes) should typically not be seen as revenue generators, since you […]
Read more...Financial Times Goes Wobbly on Brexit No Deal Impact
Is a flabby Financial Times story just a case of a piece not coming together, or is the pink paper pulling its punches on Brexit?
Read more...Hospitals Squeal Like Stuck Pigs Over Trump Proposal to Force Disclosure of Insurance Company Discounts
A Trump proposal to force some price transparency on hospitals has them hopping mad.
Read more...Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
Read more...Hit by Epic Construction Downturn, Mexico Faces Reality: New President Tries to Get Folks to Play by the Rules, and Everything Stalls
A sharp fall in construction has helped push Mexico to the verge of recession. The construction industry blames AMLO’s anti-corruption push.
Read more...Roundup Roundup: Judge Slashes Punitive Damages Award in Glyphosate Lawsuit
A third judge reduced the eye-popping punitive damages award in a glyphosate lawsuit; Bayer faces a plethora of pending cases and potential huge liability.
Read more...Softening Real Estate Markets in Prime West Coast Cities: Does China Trump IPOs?
Looking at undercurrents in West Coast economies and what they might portend for the US.
Read more...Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Accounts Ponzi Scheme
Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron.
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