Category Archives: Dubious statistics

What if Large Businesses Are Really Macroeconomic Entities?

Mega businesses are a huuge problem. But what to do?

Amid a Pandemic, a Health Care Algorithm Shows Promise and Peril

A private health data service/vendor has developed a triage algo in a rapid and non-transparent manner. Why aren’t more doctors concerned?

Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry

Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.

Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos

Stock margin debt is the visible tip of the iceberg of leverage, and it has been growing at a zoo-has-gone-nuts rate.

An Indictment of US Covid Policy

How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.

Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?

Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.

CalPERS Long-Term Care Program Bleeds Policyholders Dry via 10X Higher Premiums, Gross Mismanagement, Bad Faith Dealing

CalPERS continued to abuse its long-term care policy holders, via contract-defying rate increases vastly higher than other insurers.

Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis

Unfortunately, central Biden Administration climate change policies, like carbon taxes/pricing, fall well short of the level of action needed

Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19

An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.

Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”

Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.

How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class

A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.

CDC Chooses to Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases

The CDC’s latest move in contrary to the interest of sound public health and science.

Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs

Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.

Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It

The Fed tells the world: Don’t expect us to be ready for the next financial crisis. It’s just too hard.

Seychelles, World’s Most Vaccinated Country, Hit by Covid Surge….Including Among the Vaccinated

A big Covid surge in the Seychelles, a heavly vaccinated country, calls into question relying on vaccines as the route to normalcy.