Inequality and the Coronavirus: Destroying American Society From the Top Down
Coronavirus is exposing the severity of inequality in the US, particulary limited access to health care and the health costs of poverty.
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The Coronavirus New Normal Has Only Started To Arrive
Why we aren’t even at the end of the beginning of coronavirus-induced change.
Read more...The Worst Is Yet To Come for Oil Prices
Collaping oil prices demonstrate the severity of the fall in real economy activity.
Read more...Mutual Aid Volunteers Are Mobilizing to Help the Most Vulnerable Communities to Deal With Coronavirus
How the DSA and other groups are providing coronavirus relief.
Read more...Trump Tweet: Will Issue Executive Order Temporarily Suspending All Immigration into the United States
Last night Trump tweeted his intention to issue an executive order temporarily suspending all legal immigration into the United States.
Read more...‘Incrementalism Is Not Helpful in This Moment’: Ocasio-Cortez Rejects Settling for Crumbs in Next Covid-19 Stimulus
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the U.S. cannot afford another incremental stmulus bill that shovels massive bailouts to big businesses alone.
Read more...Great! If COVID-19 Doesn’t Get Me, Perhaps the Mercury Will: Trump EPA Rejects Justification for Pollution Rule
EPA rejects previous cost benefit analysis of mercury rule; meanwhile power industry has spent to comply with rule and opposes backsliding.
Read more...Tend Your Own Garden: Personal Food Security During the Age of COVID-19
Worries about food security have led me to send vegetable plants to Mom and a sister; this is a good year to plant a victory garden.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Coronavirus Drives Barrage of New Lobbying Activity
Follow the money – Congressional lobbying activity and who wins and who loses from coronavirus relief.
Read more...Oil, Gas, Petrochemical Financial Woes Predate Pandemic — And Will Continue After, Despite Bailouts, Report Finds
Problems with the oil, gas, and petrchemical industries predate the COVID-19 pandemic – and now will be even more difficult to rseolve.
Read more...How COVID-19 Showed America’s Dependence on Blue-Collar Workers
The outbreak of “hero” talk is a long-overdue admission that blue-collar workers are the backbone of the US economy. Time to pay them more.
Read more...Taleb Questions CalPERS Ben Meng’s Competence and Honesty in Defending Missed $1 Billion Hedge Gain; Taleb Estimates CalPERS Net Loss on Meng’s “Alternative Mitigation” Over Two Years at $19 Billion
Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls out one of CalPERS CIO Ben Meng’s Big Lies, and unearths an even bigger one.
Read more...A Payments Holiday is More Realistic Than You Think
It may be simpler to enact a payments holiday than to try to get money to the hands of individuals who desperately need it.
Read more...Is There Any Better Time Than Now For a General Strike?
May Day is around the corner. It seems a fitting time for workers to demand better via a general strike.
Read more...DemocracyWatch: Global Pandemic Power Grabs
Yet another pandemic downside….
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