A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar
An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.
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Controversial ‘Spy Tech’ Firm Palantir Lands £23m NHS Data Deal
Exclusive: UK government sneaks through new NHS COVID data contract, despite legal challenges.
Read more...China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
More on “Whither China?”
Read more...Medicare Blues
Medicare is not looking good.
Read more...Nick Corbishley: Bankruptcy Looms As Cash-Starved UK Local Councils’ High-Risk Real Estate Bets Sour
UK councils were already in trouble due to austerity, inflated charges for services, and mismanagement. Covid is set to generate bankruptcies
Read more...Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...Outsourcing: A Personal Window on the Rise of Grifting
Some vignettes from the rise of outsourcing.
Read more...McKinsey, Deloitte Charge Big Bucks to States for Botched Covid Projects
McKinsey and some other big consulting names are taking advantage of Covid-overwhelmed state governments.
Read more...Stop Girdling the Post Office
A pre-election reminder of the importance of saving the Post Office.
Read more...Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?
Read more...As of September 29, 2020, 5 Federal Courts Have Ruled Against the Postal Service
The Postal Service is getting whacked for service degradation that critics believe has a lot to do with upcoming voting by mail.
Read more...‘Dereliction of Duty’: Outrage as USPS Board Issues Gushing Praise for DeJoy Amid Mail Slowdowns, Medicine Delays, and Straw-Donor Scandal
The latest sordid episode in the teardown of the US mail service.
Read more...Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft
Due to the economic fallout of Covid-19, charter schools added to systemic inequities that afflict black communities.
Read more...US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Drug in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019
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