The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Read more...On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Read more...Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs
Read more...New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed shareholder value ideology.
Read more...BMW warns that the 2035 EU mandate to end sales of new fossil fuel vehicles will be a mass death event for most EU car makers
Read more...Economists had to play fast and loose with economic theory to deploy their merger “efficiency” arguments.
Read more...Ant-technology action, or technotage, seems to be increasing. Is this a trend or just coincidence?
Read more...Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.
Read more...A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.
Read more...Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction
Read more...The Biden Adminstration has implemented some modest curbs on drug prices. Big Pharma is fighting a rearguard action in court.
Read more...Some promising approaches to reducing gun violence.
Read more...KLG continues his investigation of scientism by looking at two canard-infested areas: plastic recycling and industial food production.
Read more...Is PCB-induded health damage about to become a major litigation front?
Read more...The monetary policy of major central banks in advanced economies have had negative consequences and thus need to be fixed.
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