Beware Climate Finance Charade
Finance has increased, not reduced, greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the industry is bizarrely touted as part of the solution.
Read more...Finance has increased, not reduced, greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the industry is bizarrely touted as part of the solution.
Read more...Sadly, famed short seller David Einhorn’s saying applies to US public health: “No matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse.”
Read more...The hyping of Ukraine rebuilding is at least as delusional as the earlier war talk.
Read more...Demand that state legislators investigate pharmacy benefit manager price-gouging for biologics like Humira when cheaper biosimilars exist
Read more...CalPERS lurches into a new crisis. The official story of the sudden resignation of CIO Nicole Musicco does not add up. What gives?
Read more...We now have to pay attention to unrealized losses in the banking system.
Read more...Private jet companies want us to believe in “guilt-free” and “carbon-neutral” flights despite their sky-high emissions
Read more...Agreements in which students owe a percentage of post-graduate income are likely to lead to more peonage as Wall Street is eager to get in on the action.
Read more...The fossil fuel industry’s latest greenwashing effort is proving a difficult sell in the American Midwest.
Read more...Economists had to play fast and loose with economic theory to deploy their merger “efficiency” arguments.
Read more...Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.
Read more...Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction
Read more...The Biden Adminstration has implemented some modest curbs on drug prices. Big Pharma is fighting a rearguard action in court.
Read more...Yet more evidence that venture capital is good for the fund managers, not so much for anyone else.
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