Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.
Read more...The new climate package furthers the US’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.
Read more...A foundational theory on the role of serotonin is a mere unsupported intuition, but mass drug peddling is nevertheless based on it.
Read more...Mortgage servicers are torturing borrowers who have been unable to pay for over a decade. All they are doing now is ripping off governments.
Read more...A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.
Read more...Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.
Read more...Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Read more...No one, and I mean no one, is hearing from the Skripals despite a public inquiry into a seemingly related, apparent nerve agent death.
Read more...The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...The most restrictive abortion law in the US is now in effect, despite its scientifically-dubioius “heatbeat” standard.
Read more...On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...Schumer should reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats reconciliation bill
Read more...Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Yves here. From time to time, readers chide us for lacking the patience to spell out the proper name of economics profession’s imitation Nobel Prize. J.R. Swenson is particularly annoyed by this practice and is highlighting some of the (sadly still few) instances within the discipline of pushing back against the brand appropriation. To highlight […]
Read more...What’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.
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