Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”

More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.

Companies Are Paying Inflation Busting Dividends at Cost to the Rest of the Economy, Including Their Employees

How companies are paying dividends rather than investing in their business or paying employees better……and often borrow to do so.

CDC Rigs Its Own Monkeypox Case Reports by Not Including Questions on Airborne Transmission

A careful examination of CDC’s data collection on monkeypox transmission.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-One: Uber’s Legitimate Cumulative Losses Top $32 Billion; P&L Improvements Driven by Much Higher Fares and Multi-Billion Dollar Transfers From Drivers to Shareholders

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.

Inside the Democrats’ Climate Deal with the Devil

The new climate package furthers the US’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.

Serotonin and the Unsubstantiated Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Disorders

A foundational theory on the role of serotonin is a mere unsupported intuition, but mass drug peddling is nevertheless based on it.

Think the Financial Crisis Is Over? Mortgage Servicers Still Abusing Borrowers For 10+ Years, Thanks to Lax Fannie/Freddie Oversight

Mortgage servicers are torturing borrowers who have been unable to pay for over a decade. All they are doing now is ripping off governments.

Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash

A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.

Murky World of Carbon Offsets Faces Greater Scrutiny

Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.

Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care

Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.

Seven Skripal Secrets The Secret Intelligence Service Didn’t Want To Let Out

No one, and I mean no one, is hearing from the Skripals despite a public inquiry into a seemingly related, apparent nerve agent death.

Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For

The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.