Private equity is setting out to hoover up accounting practices. The sorry experience in health care says there is cause for pause.
Saturday, December 27, 2025
“The Algorithm Told Me to Do It”: More Price Fixing in US Rental Market
Arizona and another class action join lawsuit parade against price-setting software companies and property managers, North Carolina AG investigating.
Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/19/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing, brain geniues, birding, and chicken sexing. ~
When It Comes to Fighting Russian Diamonds, the Jewish Diamond Trade and De Beers Are a Busted Flush
Efforts to crush the Russian diamond trade come when the industry is under duress. Why might the comparatively small Russian exports survive?
UK Citizens Just Got a Brief Foretaste of the Inherent Fragility of a Cashless Economy
Unlike digital forms of payment, cash does not crash.
Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit
Even though the rich are predictably getting richer even in the Covid era, the picture is worse when you look at billionaires.
Introduction to Swing States in the Presidential Election of 2024 (General Survey)
It’s swing voters from the swingiest states, like Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, who will really matter.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemic news, Boeing, Keith Richards (and Trump’s surety bond). ~
Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
Minneapolis Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Uber and Lyft Minimum Rates
“Essential” workers are cross-sectoral organizing across Minnesota and scoring victories.
“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
