COVID Bailouts Helped Politically Connected Businesses More Than Others – New Research
Firms with political connections, and those owned by large and influential shareholders, benefitted most from allocation of COVID bailout funds.
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‘The World Paid the Price’: Biden’s Outgoing Covid Czar Jeffrey Zients Rebuked Over Failures
The Zients-led Covid response refused to challenge drug company overlords by promoting non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Read more...The Worrying Murkiness of Institutional Biosafety Committees
Experts say institutional biosafety committees are a crucial to ensuring the safety of biomedical research. Critics say they are too opaque.
Read more...John Helmer: “Zelensky Himself Is Now in Polish Hands;” March 15 Summit with Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Prime Ministers in Przemysl, Poland, Not Kiev
It appears Urkainian President Zelensky was not in Kiev on March 15 as widely reported, but in Poland….and presumably still is there.
Read more...Progressives Fall for Crypto-Bros Intelligence-Insulting Claim of “Inclusiveness”
Why do so many people who think of themselves as smart have their brains go to mush when the topic is crypto?
Read more...New Cold War: Arsenal of Democracy or Simply an Arsenal?
The new Cold War as the gift that keeps giving to America’s arms merchants.
Read more...Russia Sanctions Trade Shock: Fulfilling the Fears of Smoot-Hawley?
More on the possiblity of severe blowback from sanctions against Russia in the form of trade disruption.
Read more...Supreme Court Inches Towards Deciding Whether State Legislatures Can Draw Congressional Districts Largely Free of Court Oversight
The Supreme Court may rule to weaken oversight of Congressional redisctricting.
Read more...India Is Mulling Rupee-Ruble Payments System for Trade with Russia
India is mulling setting up rupee-ruble payment arrangements, to allow it to trade with Russia in spite of the sanctions regime.
Read more...Sanders Welcomes End of Major League Lockout But Slams ‘Baseball Oligarchs’
Sanders calls out baseball oligarchs for major league lockout.
Read more...‘Appalling’: Moderna Rebuked Over Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Strategy
‘Billionaire CEO shouldn’t get to choose who lives and who dies,’ said one advocacy group after Moderna’s patent announcement.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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