While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Journey into a Libertarian Future: Response to Reader Comments
A follow up to Andrew Dittmer’s series on libertarian thinking.
Join Our “Come in From the Cold” NYC Meetup on Friday, January 18 and Upcoming Fort Lauderdale Meetup for Thursday February 7
Announcing our first meetup of 2019.
Should Institutional Providers Be Incentivized by Profit under Medicare for All?
Provider payment strategies under S1804 and HR676 (and what Jayapal should do with a new version of HR676).
The Euro at 20: An Enduring Success but a Fundamental Failure
The euro will stumble forward. No one will be happy with its operation. Equally, no one will leave.
6 Ways the Trump Shutdown Is Hurting the Country
A short tally of some of the damage done by the partial Federal shutdown.
Joining a Group Makes Us Nastier to Outsiders
Being in a group isn’t conducive to cooperation, and it’s not obvious how to change that.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/4/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, China trade, Tucker Carlson rant, Sanders on Wall Street Democrats, AOC dancing, Pelosi and #FightFor15, employment situation, Mr. Market in his happy space, bee nesting boxes, neoliberalism and mental health, police killings and class, China moon landing
Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Wolf Richter: Markets Are in a Tizzy. So What Will the Fed Do?
What will the Fed do next, now that investors have finally started to react to its tightening of monetary policy, after years of somnolent money-making?
CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners
Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty
The implications of conservative libertarian ideas.
