As Gig Economy Grows, Its Toll on Workers Mounts
Democrats help the gig economy expands its reach as it brings pain and suffering to more American workers.
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Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Were Up to No Good, Including Their Customer Agreement
In the unlikely event you have any doubt, Sam Bankman-Fried and his merry band of FTX rogues look mighty dishonest.
Read more...Book Review: The Surpisingly Imprecise History of Measurement
Why measurement is hard!
Read more...Oil Executives Warn G7 Price Cap Could Lead To Stranded Tankers
The more you look at the G7 Russian oil price scheme, the worse it appears.
Read more...How Workers and Pro-Union Politicians Team Up for Fair Trade
The US gets out of bed to go after some illegal foreign trade subsidies. Sadly this sort of thing does not happen very often.
Read more...The Public Shouldn’t Pay for Drugs Twice
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
Read more...The Best Climate News You May Not Have Heard About
The Montreal Protocol — designed to save the ozone layer — is also averting other global warming/climate damage.
Read more...Thieves’ Paradise in Kiev — IMF Admits It Doesn’t Know How Much Ukraine Has Received of $35 Billion in Promised Foreign Cash, or Where the Money Was Spent
It isn’t surprising that IMF funds to Ukraine are lost in action. What is surprising is the IMF isn’t pretending to care.
Read more...Reader Sanity Check: Erosion of the Skilled Trades?
America is rotting from the top, witness the arrogance and incompetence of our elites. But are we also faling short on skilled workmen?
Read more...Stop Worshiping Central Banks
Preoccupied with ‘credibility’ and reputations, central banks are again driving the world into recession, financial turmoil and debt crises.
Read more...In Just 44 Days, Liz Truss Has Made the UK Immeasurably Worse
Truss’ legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession.
Read more...Campaigners to Biden: ‘Tell Congress to Pass a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax’
“Price gouging from Big Oil is unacceptable and that’s exactly why we need a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax.”
Read more...The Sveriges Riksbank Counterfeit Nobel Award Goes to Bernanke et al. for the Wrong Model
Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort
Read more...Is the UK About to Hit the Wall?
The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.
Read more...BMI: The Mismeasure of Weight and the Mistreatment of Obesity
Rigid definitions of obesity can both restrict care for some and produce unwarranted alarms for others.
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