The Invisible Business Risk of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented changes in employment levels and the values of stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies.
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Tale of Two Cities Redux: HK to Ease its COVID-19 Restrictions, While NYC Situation Remains Dire
Hong Kong’s public health authorities protect its population from COVID-19, via use of masks; NYC, by contrast, flounders.
Read more...Rubbish Is Piling Up and Recycling Has Stalled – Waste Systems Must Adapt
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted waste management, especially the EU plan to move from virgin resourcs inputs towards a circular economy.
Read more...Pandemic Profiteering: How the Military Goes to the Head of the Covid-19 Bailout Line
How the coronavirus has helped the US military up its grifting game.
Read more...COVID-19 Lockdowns: Birds Singing, Flamingoes Flocking, Dolphins Dancing, Cleaner Air and Water
COVID-19 lockdowns have cratered the economy; meanwhile, we can hear birds sing, and air and water are cleaner, from Venice to Kolkata.
Read more...We Found and Tested 47 Old Drugs That Might Treat the Coronavirus: Results Show Promising Leads and a Whole New Way to Fight COVID-19
Yves here. It is disturbing to watch the push to con the public into seeing remdesivir as the only promising treatment for coronavirus. Please circulate this post widely to inform people you know that established, lower cost drugs also show promise. By Nevan Krogan, Professor and Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute & Senior Investigator at […]
Read more...Harmoniously Denied: The Wider Implications of China’s Censorship on COVID-19
How China’s Covid-19 censorship illustrates how Chinese citizens have internalized what were once top-down controls.
Read more...Unemployment Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders
Why ending the lockdowns won’t do all that much to lower unemployment.
Read more...The Price of Meat
Meat and the rights of meatpackers have come to the fore.
Read more...Finance Capitalism vs Industrial Capitalism: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Are Destroying Us
Another Michael Hudson star turn on debt dynamics, this time focusing on the coronavirus bailouts are shoring up rentiers.
Read more...Covid-19, The Coming Developing Country Debt Crisis and The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal
Even the IMF backs the new debt put forward by Argentina. Could it be a model for Covid-shocked emerging economies?
Read more...Looking at “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for COVID-19” with a Critical Eye
Can venture capitalists, private equity, Republican fixers, biomedical serial entrepreneurs, and scientists from two medical institutes deliver a #COVID19 solution that involves mass certification via a cellphone app, and a new hybrid form of governance, an “empowered council”?
Read more...‘No Consequences for Negligence That Kills’: McConnell Wants Corporate Immunity From Covid-19 Lawsuits
Not content with pursuing pro-business judicial nominations alone, Mitch McConnell seeks to circumscribe corporate COVID-19 legal liability.
Read more...Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same
An overview of the dislocations in the oil market.
Read more...Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress
How hopes for coronavirus tests are ahead of the state of play.
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