Wolf Richter: Oh Lordy, Yellen Comes Out for Higher Interest Rates: “A Plus for Society’s Point of View and the Fed’s Point of View”
“We want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment.
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In Missouri and Other States, Flawed Data Makes It Hard to Track Vaccine Equity
Just as an uneven approach to containing the coronavirus led to a greater toll for Black and Latino communities, the inconsistent data guiding vaccination efforts may be leaving the same groups out on vaccines
Read more...Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Read more...Rethinking Unemployment: From Adam Smith to Marx “Reserve Army of the Unemployed” to the Neoliberal War on Full Employment
Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...How Is Your Economy?
One of our periodic reader queries as to what they make of the state of the economy based on local sightings.
Read more...Why Colombia Has Erupted in Protest
The pandemic exacerbated intolerable poverty and economic distress in Colombia. As repression mounts, is there any way out?
Read more...Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
Read more...The West’s Not Very Hidden Hand in Debt Oppression in Central Asia
How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...SoftBank-Funded Silicon Valley Unicorn Katerra, Which Was to “Transform” the Construction Industry, Collapses
Katerra, one of the rare unicorns with a real or at least plausible business, fell to Covid. Lawsuits will fly.
Read more...From Tragedy to Hesitancy: How Public Health Failures Boosted COVID-19 Vaccine Scepticism
Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
Read more...It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: COVID-19 Gooses Local On-Line Shopping and Home Delivery Options
Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. and a bank holiday in the UK. Best wishes to U.S. and UK readers for a pleasant holiday.
Read more...Dominic Cummings: How the UK Ignored Evidence That the Virus is Airborne
“I think we are absolutely fucked. I think this country is heading for disaster. I think we’re going to kill thousands of people.”
Read more...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?
Read more...Larry Summers Doubles Down On His Inflation Prediction
Unfortunately, Larry Summers still gets attention, most recently for inflation hawkery. Fortunately, it’s not hard to see through him.
Read more...A Neoliberalism Meets Covid Vignette: Barriers to Getting a Vaccine, Publix Edition
We had to jump through way too many hoops to get a Covid vaccine at Publix. Is this normal for pharmacies?
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