Why Don’t We Treat All Refugees as Though They Were Ukrainian?
Who’d have thunk it? Advanced economies are mighty bigoted about which refugees go to the head of the line.
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Plan to Fix Postal Service Shifts New Retirees to Medicare — Along With Billions in Costs
A new scheme to make Medicare funding look worse to plug phony Post Office budget holes.
Read more...“Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer”
Pfizer and Moderna stocks have tanked over liabilty worries. The case made by vocal critic Edward Dowd.
Read more...Shareholder Activism: Icahn Targets McDonald’s Pig Pens
Carl Icahn seeks to force McDonald’s 2012 pledge to cease to use gestation crate to confine pregnant pigs within a decade.
Read more...“Just Scandalous”: CDC Withholding Most of the Covid Data It Gathers. What Is It Trying to Hide?
We predicted the new CDC head, Rochelle Walensky, would do badly. A New York Times story shows how she’s underperforming our low expectations
Read more...Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act: Power Without Responsibility?
After weeks of inaction against truckers, Trudeau invoked the After weeks of looking impotent, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Ac to end the truckers’ protests. Was this a winning move?
Read more...War on Cash: Banks Crack Down on Independent ATMs
Banks crack down on independent ATM operators in the latest salvo in the war on cash.
Read more...California Bill Would Allow Citizens to Enforce Assault Weapon Ban
Turnabout is fair play: A proposed California assualt weapon bill uses the private enforcement scheme of a notorious Texas anti-abortion law
Read more...How Corporations Use Public School Workforce ‘Pipelines’ to Harvest Students’ Data and Train Narrowly Skilled, Exploitable Staff
A new corporate scheme: hijack vocational programs to meet narrow, immediate needs, leaving students with short shelf-life skills.
Read more...Trudeau’s Money Heist: Emergencies Act Allows Seizure of Bank Accounts, Securities, Crypto of Those Suspected of “Links” to Convoy Members w/o Court Order
Why the implementation of Canada’s Emergencies Act is a terrible precedent.
Read more...SEC Investigating Possible Block Trading Abuses at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Big Players
Mirabile dictu! More seriousness from the SEC!
Read more...This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help.
Another example of how the US health care system fails patients that could be treated.
Read more...Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms
Why big farms are often not better.
Read more...Arbitration Antics: Warren, Porter, Press Regulator to Explain Yet Another Way Wells Fargo Found to Game the System
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep Katie Porter press regulator for answers as to how Wells Fargo apparently gamed the arbitration system.
Read more...How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”
A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism
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