Why Are Profit-Making Factories Closing Across England?
The curious case of England’s closing factories shows the need for industrial strategy to counter rampant short-termism.
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Matt Stoller: “Monopoly is a Form of Lawlessness”
A high-level talk of the ebb and flow of monopoly power over the past century and what to do about them now.
Read more...Evidence from Peer Review That Women Are Held to Higher Standards
Evidence that women face higher obstacles to professional achievement than men.
Read more...Exploiting the Elderly: Crapification and Long-Term Care Insurance, Genworth as Case Study
Genworth’s flagging long-term insurance business as a window into the challenges facing even the high-functioning elderly.
Read more...Tech Giants Look to WTO to Entrench Their Monopoly Powers and Profits
How tech titans are using the WTO and trade agreements to further strengthen their dominant positions.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Pollution Pays!
A study of DuPont’s failure to clean up emissions of a toxic chemical shows pollution is economical rational. Too bad the remedies are lame.
Read more...Will Big Data Eat Hollywood’s Lunch?
Hollywood relies ever more heavily on repetitive content.
Will firms like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google swallow it whole?
Nurses: Paul Krugman Gives ‘Shallow Political Advice’ On Health Care Reform
While the National Nurses Union back national health care, they are cautiously calling only for Medicare for All, not a more robust system.
Read more...Healthcare Hypocrisy: How Politicians Hide Behind the 1986 EMTALA Law to Avoid Healthcare Reform
Is the emergency room mandate, EMTALA, responsible for lawmakers failing to devise reasonable legislation to fund health care?
Read more...It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis
Economist Andrew Lo presents his alternative to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis: the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Cryptocurrencies Collapsed
Why “collapsed” is not too strong a word to describe the recent price action for currency wannabes.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Study Confirms that ACA Narrow Networks Exclude Top Cancer Doctors
A new study confirms NC’s longstanding observations of the dangers that narrow networks pose to participants in ACA plans.
Read more...Inequality: How We Got Here, and What Should Be Done
More discussion of the causes of rising inequality and possible remedies.
Read more...Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages
The gravity defying pay given to top health care managers, particularly the top managers of non-profit hospital systems.
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