A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:42 am | 3 Comments »
We Are Fourteen Years Old
Fourteen years old and (hopefully) still making lots of trouble!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:19 am | 93 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2020
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 145 Comments »
Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Science and the scientific method, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 55 Comments »
Links 12/18/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 142 Comments »
Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:26 am | 122 Comments »
Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 27 Comments »
Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:40 am | 18 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/17/2020
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 135 Comments »
Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 59 Comments »
Links 12/17/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 207 Comments »
Further Discussion of the Red Flags in the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
Responding to critics of a post on the Pfizer vaccine paper and editorial.
Topics: Health care, Media watch, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 122 Comments »
Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:51 am | 51 Comments »
Americans’ Hunger During the Coronavirus Pandemic – Here’s What’s Happening in Los Angeles County
More and more Americans are suffering from hunger due to Covid economic stress, as Los Angeles demonstrates.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:34 am | 18 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2020
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 174 Comments »