Billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks gets into the pharmaceutical industry.
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Friday, July 11, 2025
Mark Cuban Has Been Taking On the Drug Industry. But Which One?
Topics: Guest Post, Health care
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:30 am | 8 Comments »
Europe’s Second Largest Industrial Base Sinks Under the Weight of Energy Costs as Divisions Open Up in the Ruling Coalition
Italy searches for energy after cutoff from Russia.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 37 Comments »
Public Pension Funding Average Now Below 50%, Yet Beneficiaries and Press Stay Mum
That light at the end of the public pension fund tunnel is the headlight of the underfunding train bearing down on them.
Topics: CalPERS, Investment management, Investment outlook, Politics, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:45 am | 8 Comments »
Turkish President Erdoğan’s Grip on Power Threatened by Devastating Earthquake
The massive February 6 earthquake weakened Erdogan’s already not-so-hot re-election prospects. What now?
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Turkey
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:09 am | 16 Comments »
Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through
Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages
Topics: ECONNED, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 36 Comments »
Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization
Rather than settle for narrow reforms, rail workers are pushing for public ownership of the US railroad system, which is commonplace throughout much of the world.
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 28 Comments »
Links 2/18/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 289 Comments »
Tech Companies Are Getting Into Neurotechnology. Should We Worry?
Consumer-facing neurotechnology could make computers more accessible — and pose a new kind of threat to data privacy.
Topics: Guest Post, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:14 am | 19 Comments »
Tipping Is Not a Reward—It’s an Insult
Tipping legalizes subminimum wages and keeps workers subservient to the whims of employers and customers.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 75 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/17/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 81 Comments »
Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History
The demand that protest only be nonviolent helps preserve an often corrupt and abusive status quo.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 76 Comments »
Links 2/17/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 148 Comments »
Is Switzerland About to Become First Country to Outlaw a Cashless Society?
As in neighboring Germany and Austria, cash is still king in Switzerland albeit a much diminished one. But the Swiss will soon have the chance to vote on whether to preserve notes and coins indefinitely.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 61 Comments »
‘Absolute Hypocrisy’: GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
Topics: Banana republic, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 21 Comments »