Monday, January 12, 2026
Could New BRICS Member Argentina Become First Country to Receive a Full-Scale BRICS Bailout?
The country is once again in deep crisis mode, with decades high inflation, a crumbling currency and no foreign currency reserves. It is shackled to the IMF but now faces the possibility of being able to tap alternative sources of finance.
KFF Health News Publishes Shameful, Self-Serving Story Advocating Unrealistic “Social Media” Approach to Bogus Insurer Denials Instead of Pushing for External Appeal
KFF Health News advocated feel-good but largely ineffective approaches to insurer denials, as opposed to effectiive reforms.
Henry A. Kissinger at 100, Still a War Criminal
Some of the major entries in Kissinger’s rap sheet.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/24/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges
BRICS is set to add important new members…but will their diversity complicate coming to common policy stances?
Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage
How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.
Jonesing on Carbon
A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.
China And U.S. Lock Horns Over New 122.5% Steel Tariff
Yet another US/China trade row, this one over steel.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction
China Schizophrenia: Jake Sullivan Makes Demands, Press Fulminates Its Ambitions as While Overhyping Current Economic Wobbles
The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.
Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change
A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.
