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Saturday, July 18, 2026
Links 10/12/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 165 Comments »
WHO Approved a Malaria Vaccine for Children – a Global Health Expert Explains Why That Is a Big Deal
WHO approves first ever malaria vaccine.
Topics: Africa, Health care, India
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:53 am | 8 Comments »
Chicago Boys’ 100% Private Pension System in Chile Is in Big Trouble
Once touted by its creator as the “Mercedes Benz” of pensions, Chile’s defined contribution scheme is suffering major outflows
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:51 am | 22 Comments »
‘Waive the Patents’: Moderna Still Refuses to Share Covid-19 Vaccine Recipe
Modern refuses to share vaccine recipe and acts as if they have absolutely no responsibility beyond maximizing their return on investment.
Topics: Banana republic, Legal, Pandemic
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 5:55 am | 11 Comments »
Sleep and the Covid-19 Pandemic
An unsystematic survey of the effect of SARS-COV-2, the virus, on sleeping individuals; and the effect of COVID-19, the disease, on populations.
Topics: Health care, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 pm | 33 Comments »
On the Economic Geography of Climate Change
A crucial aspect of human adaptation to climate change is geographic mobility. As a consequence, limitations to mobility will worsen the socioeconomic costs of climate change.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | 17 Comments »
Links 10/11/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 245 Comments »
The Supply Chain Crisis: How We Got Here
On some of the key management practices and fads that produced dependence on extended and revealed-to-be-fragile supply chains.
Topics: Auto industry, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Investment management, Japan, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:26 am | 73 Comments »
Popularism and the Child Tax Credit
On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:14 am | 19 Comments »
Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?
The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:55 pm | 92 Comments »
Links 10/10/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 203 Comments »
Major Insurers Running Billions of Dollars Behind on Payments to Hospitals and Doctors
Disputes between insurers and hospitals are nothing new. But this fight sticks more patients in the middle, worried they’ll have to pay unresolved claims.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 am | 36 Comments »
Book Review: The ‘Mystery’ Illnesses Informed by Culture
Illness may be even less straightforward than you think.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 19 Comments »
Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK
Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Payment system, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:22 am | 7 Comments »



