Why Cheaper Drugs from Canada Likely Won’t Cure What Ails US
Why importing drugs from Canada is a band-aid on a gunshot wound.
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Wolf Richter: How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance
Health insurance costs will kill you if your medical issues don’t get you first.
Read more...Trump’s Fannie/Freddie Privatization Giveaway: Why GSE Reform Is Hard
GSE reform is baack! Or not.
Read more...Brexit: Past the Event Horizon
Slouching towards Brexit.
Read more...Documentary “Blowout” Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom from Fracking to Exports
This RNN interview reminds us that the fracking catastrophe didn’t originate under Trump: his predecessor rescinded the energy export ban.
Read more...The Fed Has Not Covered Itself in Glory: Fed Funds Mess Edition
Why the Fed should be embarrassed.
Read more...Two Horrid Wall Street Journal Stories Show What a Malefactor Amazon Has Become
The Wall Street Journal reports ghastly stories about product safety from third party sellers at Amazon, and the ugly office politics of software development
Read more...FAA Hoist on Its Own Boeing 737 Max Petard: Multiagency Panel to Issue Report Criticizing Agency Approval Process, Call for Certification Changes
Another FAA self-inflicted wound.
Read more...48 States to Investigate Google: Anti-Trust or Politicking?
The messy politics of the 48 state Google anti-trust investigation.
Read more...The Two Sides of Government Guarantees for Banks
Not all guarantees are created equal, and what that means for banks.
Read more...California Privacy Law Looms
Businesses race to comply with California’s new data privacy law by 1st January; meanwhile, efforts continue to weaken its protections.
Read more...Here Are Photos of Some of the Dilapidated Equipment San Francisco Wants to Buy from Bankrupt PG&E for $2.5 Billion
Californians have had it with PG&E. But is San Francisco overpaying to get rid of them? Take a look.
Read more...While PG&E Played a ‘Cat and Mouse Game’ With California Regulators, Where Was Kamala?
The WSJ account of how PG&E played a “cat and mouse game” with regulators; alas, California’s utilities commission “is not a particularly adroit cat.”
Read more...Trump Seeks to Revoke California Emissions Waiver
Trump looks to rollback California’s 1970 waiver under the Clean Air Act, which allowed the state to set emissions standards.
Read more...Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil
While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.
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