Shale ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Hits Wall of Capital Restraint
One of Trump’ inflation-cutting plans, more shale production to lower energy prices, is not going to get strong uptake from the industry.
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A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?
A historical look at Presidential power grabs, um, authority expansion, with an eye to what that means under Trump 2.0.
Read more...Can We Avoid a Franken-Future with AI?
In his new book, Mindless, historian Robert Skidelsky urges readers to reflect on the delicate balance between AI and our human essence.
Read more...Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
Some practical ideas for how to combat climate change at the local level
Read more...The Economics of Medicine: Personal Reflections
More examples of how medicine, at least as practiced in the US, is going off the rails.
Read more...Big and Small Businesses Are Nothing Like Each Other
An important yet oft-ignored point: big and small businesses are wildly different, and that matters from a policy perspective.
Read more...How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery
Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...Cities Are Clearing Encampments, but This Won’t Solve Homelessness − Here’s a Better Way Forward
Following a Supreme Court ruling approving the criminalization of homelessness, many jurisdictions are imposing harsh rules and punishments.
Read more...What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Debunking Big Pharma whinging over Inflation Reduction Act drug price negotiations.
Read more...Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.
The financialization of U.S. firms making key products endangers American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.
Read more...Big Oil to Benefit From Biden’s Carbon Capture Tax Credits: Report
How carbon capture tax credits funnel billions to the oil and gas industry while delivering few if any climate benefits.
Read more...What Does ‘Recyclable’ Really Mean?
A trade group is lobbying to redefine recyclable, pressuring regulators to make plastic appear more environmentally friendly.
Read more...The First Year of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Is Mired in Red Tape
How Georgia’s Medicaid work rules are operating as planned.
Read more...Naked Capitalism’s Skunk Party Manifesto Finds a Home in the New Kentucky Party
The Skunk Party Manifesto explained how the best political system money can buy is great for its customers and lousy for the rest of us
Read more...The Stupid Price Gouging Discourse
Is Kamala’s price gouging proposal is a ruse, and why won’t she voice support for Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission?
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