Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
Student Enrollment Dropped 11% Since 2011, Student-Loan Balances Surged 74%. Why?
Drilling into why the student loan problem keeps getting worse.
US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
Brexit D-Day
The big Brexit day is here.
How Iowa Chooses National Convention Delegates and What That Means For Us
Explaining the Iowa Caucus Rube Goldberg machine.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/30/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #2019-nCoV (auto manufacturing, US jobs), Biden (labor, electability), Sanders executive orders, Bloomberg as Crassus, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Trump, Iowa, construction, Samsung, Boeing, Nissan, the Fed, carbon footprints, exploding batteries, minimum wage, sex work, psilocybin, internak monologues
Secular Stagnation: Demand Is Indeed the Culprit
Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.
Michael Hudson on the History of Debt Cancellation, Austerity in Europe, January 2020
Michael Husdon reviews the key themes of his recent book, ……and Forgive Them Their Debts, and discusses German austerity.
#MeToo Shamefully Nowhere To Be Found as SEIU Not Only Refuses to Fire Staffers Charged With Multiple Instances of Sexual Misconduct, but Retaliates Against Press and Whistleblowers
SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.
The War in Libya Will Never End
Looking at the gap between posturing and positions in Libya
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/29/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Polling (national, IA, NH, SC, CA), Bloomberg and dog, Buttigieg and staff, Sanders and worried Democrats, Trump rally, impeachment, employment, Bitcoin, Salesforce, Apple, Tesla, automotive supply chain, Wuhan corona virus, the environmental cost of email
How CEOs, Experts and Philosophers See the World’s Biggest Risks Differently
Trying to understand CEOs’ blinkered view of risks.
