Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong
Looking at inflation through a class warfare lens.
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More Monkeypox Vaccines Are Coming to NYC. Should You Get Vaccinated — And How?
“Your guide to all things monkeypox — from symptoms to where to get vaccinated in the city.”
Read more...“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health
The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Finance Capitalism’s Self-Destructive Nature
Michael Hudson rings the changes on a favorite theme: the differences between the financial capitalism and industrial capitalism systems
Read more...Some Quick Thoughts About Russia’s Resilience and America’s Malaise
Seeking reader input on preliminary hypotheses on why Russia is faring better than expected under the sanctions while the US is suffering.
Read more...Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.
Read more...Fossil Fuel Interests Are Behind Canada’s Blue Hydrogen Push
Fossil fuel producing Canada is promoting the blue hydrogen con.
Read more...The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?
It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.
Read more...The Fed Tackles Kalecki
A well regarded paper by Fed researchers challenges conventional views on the relationship between inflation and employment
Read more...As CalPERS Doubles Down on Private Equity, New Analysis Finds CalPERS’ Private Equity Returns “Based on a Mirage;” Another Study Reaffirms that Private Equity Drags Down Performance
Yet more reasons why CalPERS needs to kick its private equity bad habit.
Read more...Growing Revolt Among Medical Practitioners Against Vaccinating Toddlers for Covid
The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Endanger Employees During Extended Covid Surge Over Union Objections; Falsely Said It Was Complying With California Requirements; Appears To Be Understating Case Count
CalPERS is having employees service the egos of managers by coming to the office rather than protecting them from Covid by teleworking.
Read more...More and More Crypto Crashing and Burning as DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Misbehaves
The great crypto unwind is underway, bringing to light even more bad practices than you likely knew about.
Read more...Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either
More cheery Omicron takes.
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