Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy
Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.
Read more...Category Archives: Regulations and regulators
‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
Read more...Warren’s Antitrust Proposal: Should We Break Up Big Tech, or Just Regulate It Better?
While it is gratifying to see Senator and presidential contender Elizabeth Warren focusing on antitrust and the abuse of monopoly power, her $25 billlion fix looks too simplistic.
Read more...Italy: How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
How Italy became an economic mess.
Read more...Are You Biased Against Nuclear Power? Yup, Say Scientists
Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
Read more...Gail Tverberg: The True Feasibility of Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...Right to Repair Initiatives Gain Support in US
Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment.
Read more...Bill Black: Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad”
Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.
Read more...New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family and PurduePharma profited from opioid-related “suffering and death,” NYC AG Letitia James charges. White collar criminologist and law professor Bill Black weighs in.
Read more...How American Recycling Is Changing Now that China Won’t Take It
The US recycling approach of using the rest of the world as it garbage barge has come to an end. What next?
Read more...More on Flood Control: The Missouri River, the Levees, and the Gavins Point and Spencer Dams
The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
Read more...Bank Regulation Can’t Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
At a G20 preparatory meeting, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees. The panelists didn’t mince words.
Read more...Brexit: Mayday
More Brexit stumlbing about as the EU sounds alarms.
Read more...Boeing Doubles Down on 737 Max, Rejects Need for Simulator Training
Boeing is compounding its bad decisions on the 737 Max.
Read more...Taxcast: Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash
This month’s Taxcast discusses misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative, and omitted alternative solutions.
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