Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors
Google now wants to play doctor.
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Read more...If you are worried about repo, you are worried about the wrong thing. If anything, it’s a symptom of too much liquidity demand from the FX swaps market.
Read more...The lead story in the Financial Times tonight is that Germany’s finance minister Olaf Scholz is pushing for an EU-wide deposit scheme…of sorts. Even though Scholz’s plan appears to be more modest than the headlines indicate, even a halting move towards EU-level fiscal commitments would be a significant departure from Germany’s traditional stance of barring […]
Read more...Surprise billing is such a widespread abuse that it is managing to bring private equity chicanery and public pension funds’ tacit support of it to long-overdue public attention.
Read more...UK halts all fracking in England with immediate effect. On its face, a big win, but will the Tories make the moratorium permanent?
Read more...A nursing home case study in profiteering.
Read more...Oil industry lobbies to weaken emissions standards, deploying “public interest groups” that are mere mouthpieces for fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...Why we need single-use plastics bans: to save us from our worst selves; plus a positive development on the recycling front.
Read more...Discussion of comprehensive Sanders plan to legalize marijuana: legal and political implications.
Read more...A hard look at a Warren plan reveals a lot not to like.
Read more...As the student debt crisis continues to mount, major financial institutions are making record profits from student loan asset backed securities.
Read more...So first came the blackout….
Read more...Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
Read more...Another indictment of drug pricing.
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