Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
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Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Read more...Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices
Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.
Read more...Financial Times: “Things Could Fall Apart for Biden”
Even Biden loyalists are getting nervous.
Read more...DoJ Bankruptcy Trustee Lambastes Provisions to Protect Sacklers in Purdue Bankruptcy Exit Plan as “Illegal”
Feds weigh in on Purdue bankruptcy plan, raising possibility that Sacklers won’t get off more or less scot-free for their role in the opioids crisis.
Read more...Haiti Ruling Families Create and Kill Monsters
How Haiti is a fiefdom for gangs and foreigners pilfering the country’s natural resources.
Read more...The U.S. Shale Revolution Has Surrendered to Reality
The funding for shale production in the US has dried up as moneybags finally realize that there’s no profit to be had.
Read more...Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home
The trauma center ripoff provides more evidence that the medical industry is primarily in the business of exploitation, not care.
Read more...Biden Targets Non-Compete Agreements, Which Restrict the Job Opportunities of Millions of Low-Wage Workers
Biden goes after non-compete agreements….but will this effort make a difference?
Read more...Robinhood’s Revealing Ad Pitch: We’re All Investors, Alone
The latest Robinhood campaign is more raspberry than rah rah.
Read more...A Curious Union: Covid, Clorox, Cleveland Clinic, and the CDC Foundation
Cleveland Clinic’s and the CDC Foundation’s unsound Clorox sponsorship confirms that the US has the best medical system that money can buy.
Read more...Mindfulness Meditation Can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less Generous
Why mindfulness practices don’t move seamlessly across cultures.
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses Financialization, Rentierism, and Other Favorite Topics with Jessi Ora of Swedish Positiva Pengar Group
Michael Hudson gives another wide-ranging, tour de force interview. Enjoy!
Read more...Steve Wozniak Endorses the Right to Repair
Last week, President Joe Biden and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak endorsed the right to repair.
Read more...Kentucky Retirement System Litigation Against KKR, Blackstone, PAAMCO et. al. Takes New Class Action/Civil RICO Twist
Those pesky lawyers behind Mayberry v. KKR won’t give up! And some private equity titans are likely plenty unhappy about that.
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