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Electronic Health Records: Death By A Thousand Clicks

Rather than an electronic ecosystem of information, the nation’s thousands of EHRs largely remain a sprawling, disconnected patchwork. Moreover, the effort has handcuffed health providers to technology they mostly can’t stand and has enriched and empowered the $13-billion-a-year industry that sells it.

Shotgun Marriage: Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank Discuss Merger

Even by the low standards of necessity-driven bank mergers, the proposed tie up of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank looks particularly dodgy.

Of Course We Can Pay for a Green New Deal, but We Can’t Escape Hard Choices

A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.

Boeing Crapification: Second 737 Max Plane Within Five Months Crashes Just After Takeoff

Another Boeing 737 aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff in Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all 157 passengers on board, in circumstances similar to last October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Consequences for Boeing depend on what the just-recovered voice and data recorders reveal.

Medicare for All (the Perplexed)

A French lesson on Medicare for All.

India Bans Plastics Waste Imports, While Fossil Fuel Plastics Pushers in US and China Ramp Up to Party On

Kudos to India for banning plastics waste imports, to focus on solving its own waste management problem. Meanwhile, fossil fuel interests ramp up plans to produce more plastics.

Cities And Counties Unlikely To Heed FDA Warning On Importing Foreign Drugs

The FDA goes to bat for the right of drugs makers to price gouge Americans.

Do Real Estate Markets Make Our Cities Less Livable?

Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes cities.

Have We Already Passed World Peak Oil and World Peak Coal?

Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.

Deregulating Banks Fueled Speculation, Not Productive Investment

More proof that letting banks have their way is not such a good idea…at least for non-financiers.

Developing Industry Standards Won’t Give AI a Conscience

Marc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). He tells us why they won’t work.

Why Carbon Prices Are Not Enough

A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.

Skilling Released from Prison After A Decade of Doing Time: A Reminder of a Not So Distant Past, When the Rule of Law Applied to Corporate CEOs

Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron, was released Friday after doing twelve years of prison time: a reminder that corporate officers once were once prosecuted and sent to jail for corporate criminal activities.