More on the further erosion of ownership and property rights via required renting.
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Renting Your Life
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:36 am | 47 Comments »
Word of the Day: Don’t Say “Covid Pandemic.” Say “Covid Syndemic”!
“‘Tis a mystery,” except not!
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 pm | 13 Comments »
Links 5/19/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 234 Comments »
Why One New York Health System Stopped Suing Its Patients
American hospital officials often insist that lawsuits and other aggressive collections, though unsavory, are necessary to protect health systems’ finances and deter freeloading. But at Rochester Regional, ditching these collection tactics hasn’t hurt the bottom line.
Topics: Health care
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 8 Comments »
Links 5/18/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 247 Comments »
Dr. Jill Stein & Michael Hudson: Fighting Russia & China to Last American: Destroying US From Within
The high cost and risks of the Biden Administration commitment to pursue forever wars with Russia and China.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, New McCarthyism, Politics, Russia, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 97 Comments »
US Affordable Housing Policy Works for Wall Street and Rich Developers, Not Renters
Current policy doesn’t provide affordable housing very well but does a good job of lining the pockets of real estate interests.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:57 am | 13 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; NC pulls the anti-mask bill for revisions;Trump lawyer trips up Cohen, jeopardizing conviction; another CDC atrocity; Noonan interviews a Wildwood, NY attendee. ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 70 Comments »
Defending Privacy in the Surveillance State and Fragmenting Internet
Governments and private entities are eroding privacy on the internet. Is it possible to safeguard both openness and security in cyberspace?
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Media watch, New McCarthyism, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:56 am | 36 Comments »
Links 5/17/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 173 Comments »
EU Commission Plans to Strip Funding From Public Prosecutors Investigating Ursula von der Leyen’s Pfizergate Scandal
Surely just a coincidence!
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 11 Comments »
Why Did the US Spend $320 Million on a Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza?
The infamous Gaza humanitarian aid pier is a construction and logistical nightmare.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:40 am | 51 Comments »
The Long Goodbye? Mitch McConnell and Big Money Politics
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has been well-earned.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:14 am | 13 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/16/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Cohen’s testimony in the Bragg trial plus theories of the case, Biden and Trump debate, the NC legislature bails for the weekend without passing the anti-masking bill, the Impressionists and the Paris Commune. ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 72 Comments »
New Palestine Protest/Free Speech Threat: House Oversight Committee Targets 20 Pro-Palestinian Organizations, Such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Demanding Treasury Produce Suspicious Activity Reports, Including on Employeees
A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Topics: Banking industry, Legal, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:08 am | 35 Comments »