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...How the Vehicle Production Nightmare Upended Everything and Why Automakers & Dealers Don’t Want the Old Ways Back
New vehicle sales show how Covid is working out very well for capitalists.
Read more...White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain Kowtows before the Economic Club Of Washington
Ron Klain reports to his bosses.
Read more...The CDC’s New Guidelines on Covid Risk and Masking Send Confounding Signals
The CDC’s move triggered some of the same mixed feelings from the public that the poll uncovered and laid bare a split within the health care community.
Read more...NYC Courts Issue Rules To Ram Through Gun Cases, Under Political Pressure
A new “all hat, no cattle” gun trial plan shows how much Democrats want to look tought on crime without doing the heavy lifting to tackle it
Read more...Failing the Fix: Grading Apple, Dell, Google, Microsoft on the Ease of Repair of Their Products
US PIRG releases a scorecard, ranking the products of major manufacturers on the ease of repair of their products.
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...Charts Paint a Grim Picture Two Years Into the Coronavirus Pandemic
The charts tell various aspects of the story, from the deadly force of the disease and its disparate impact to the signs of political polarization and the United States’ struggle to marshal an effective response.
Read more...Book Excerpt: The Lockdown Diaries of Wuhan
An on-the-ground report from the early days of the Wuhan lockdown.
Read more...Biden Pledges Better Nursing Home Care, but He Likely Won’t Fast-Track It
A Biden plan to improve nursing home care looks like too little, too late.
Read more...Pfizer February 2021 “Post Marketing” Vaccine Side Effects Tally Raises Alarms
A troubling Pfizer document has managed to go under the radar.
Read more...New CDC Covid Guidance Caves to Great Barrington, Is Not Science-Based, Finagles the Metrics, and Destroys Masking as a Public Health Measure (Just in Time for the SOTU)
CDC’s “Made for Television” guidance
Read more...Three Cheers for the Makers of Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes!
Two, three, many Corsi-Rosenthal boxes!
Read more...“Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer”
Pfizer and Moderna stocks have tanked over liabilty worries. The case made by vocal critic Edward Dowd.
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