Putting a Pause on the Practice of Surrogacy
Surrogacy’s health risks raise ethical issues over whether the practice is exploitative and should be banned.
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‘We’re Not Going to Forget’: Pritzker Warns Trump Enforcers Miller, Homan, Bovino That Immunity Not Forever
Governor Pritzker has gotten out of bed to threaten Team Trump over ICE abuses. But this still amounts to a wet noodle lashing.
Read more...Data Centers Spark Bipartisan Fury As Energy Costs Soar
Voters are waking up to the fact that their soaring electricity costs represent a big subsidy to data centers. What happens next?
Read more...Economic Myths: Homo Economicus
Richard Murphy is starting to take part bad economic idea. This series may wind up having no ending.
Read more...Farmers Fight Federal Efforts to Block States from Promoting Humane Animal Agriculture
Federal legislation is pending as part of a Big Ag effort to combat states requiring more humane animal farming methods.
Read more...Waiting for the Wheels to Come Off as Jamie Dimon, the IMF and Bank of England Warn of Damage of an AI Bubble Burst
A look at the increasingly expected AI bubble implosion and what the impact might be.
Read more...A Front Line Report of AI Damage to the Job Market
Informative, if also distressing, detail on the havoc AI is wreaking on the job market, particulary for the young.
Read more...TINA Never Die: Is Taxing the Rich Unthinkable Forever?
Establishment Democrats and Donald Trump both agree there is no alternative to the relentless upward mobility of wealth, is there any hope of change?
Read more...US Workers Experience Large Month-to-Month Fluctuations in Pay
Yet another indiginity low-wage workers suffer: uncertainty in pay due to employers not giving them steady hours.
Read more...The J K Galbraith Question: The Tyranny of Private Consumption
Can advanced economies free themselves of the pathology that John Kenneth Galbraith warned about, of excessive consumption?
Read more...Exploring the High Rates of Social Violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Solutions remain difficult to achieve
Read more...Ending Taxes on Home Sales Would Benefit the Wealthiest Households Most – Part of a Larger Pattern in Trump Tax Plans
With Trump chaos-making and zone-flooding, some gimmies to the well-f, like a proposed tax break on home sales, are going under the radar.
Read more...The Milton Friedman Question
A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.
Read more...What Slowdown? Q2 GDP Growth Revised Up to Hot Zone of 3.8%, Stronger Consumer Spending & Private Fixed Investment
The second upward revision of GDP is a headscratcher in light of other data and on the ground reports. Can readers help make sense of this?
Read more...Trump Again Applies His Tariff Wrecking Ball to US Citizens and Businesses with 100% Levy on Imported Patented Drugs, 25% on Imported Trucks, 30% to 50% on Furnishings
Trump is again deploying his tariff weapon, mainly at hapless American patients and consumers….and Indian drugmakers.
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