Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”
How coronavirus is being used to advance the anti- public-education agenda
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Covid-19: Where From? Why Now?
Examining theories about Covid-19 that blame its start on farming. But which kind of farming?
Read more...The FT Says It’s Time for the Bank of England to Start Direct Funding of the Government: Modern Monetary Theory Has Won the Day
Modern Monetary Theory has a new convert. Too bad Americans are behind the curve.
Read more...Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays And Uncertainty As Coronavirus Cripples Hospitals
Coronavirus creates a terrible bind for cancer patients and their doctors.
Read more...India’s Poorest Now Have Access to Basic Bank Accounts, and Many Already Received their First Cash Stimulus Payment By Last Saturday; Meanwhile the IRS May Get You Your $1200 Check in Five Months
A tale of two stimuli: the Modi government has already made some direct deposits; some Americans will wait five months to receive checks.
Read more...Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
Pipeline projects proceed, sometimes on a stealth basis, under cover of the COVID-19 crisis and despite the collapse of world oil prices.
Read more...Coronavirus: A Theory of Incompetence
Coronavirus has shredded the last vestiges of the belief that America was well run. How did we get here?
Read more...Right to Repair and Ventilators: Saving COVID-19 Patients
The coronavirus crisis highlights the importance of ensuring wide access to repair information for lifesaving machines, such as ventilators.
Read more...Capitalism Has Failed in Fighting Coronavirus
The problem of policies aimed to return the economy to what it was before the virus hit is this: Global capitalism, by 2019, was itself a major cause of the collapse in 2020.
Read more...Services Sector Falls Off Cliff: First Data Points from the Eurozone Where Lockdowns Started Earlier
Early data from Europe says the damage to the services sector is as deep as many feared, and bodes ill for the US, with its poor and sluggish economic responses.
Read more...What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know About Hospital Emergency Rooms
A coronavirus whistleblower winds up also exposing that private equity has too much say in running emergency rooms.
Read more...The New Inequalities and People-to-People Social Protection
Yves here. On the one hand, this post contains many examples of how people with resources are assisting those hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. On the other, it is also all too apparent that in most cases, these charitable acts only make a dent in the problems most face, although admittedly shows of concern […]
Read more...The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Opened the Curtains on the World’s Next Economic Model
COVID-19 has exposed flaws in the global supply chain economic model; advances in technology have rendered it obsolete.
Read more...Coronavirus, Control, Irritability, and Guilt
A coronavirus confessional of sorts.
Read more...Key Official Missing in Action: North Carolina Treasurer, Sole Fiduciary of Its Pension, Has Covid-19 but State Refuses to Say More
Key public officials are abusing their position if they keep the severity of their Covid-19 illness under wraps.
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