More American Cities Considering Free Public Transportation | naked capitalism
When I was last in New York City, I heard a sadly common display of class privilege when a woman waiting in my chiropractor’s office initiated a rant on the…
The Expanding Role of Medicaid in US Health Care | naked capitalism
Yves here. I had no idea that Medicaid was such a heavyweight in total US health care. This is remarkable in what it says indirectly about poverty and income instability…
Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It? | naked capitalism
Yves here. Predictably, policy-makers prefer the climate change version of wunderwaffen to traditional approaches with less NGO-busying and producer-enriching. And that before getting to the fact that lower tech works…
Links 5/25/2023 | naked capitalism
Yves says she has to get up very today for estate duties, and so must sleep when she would otherwise be posting. So wish her luck, and she’ll make it…
Ice Melt In the Pipeline | naked capitalism
Yves here. The IPCC’s ideological prejudices have led to an unduly relaxed view of the speed of ice melt and rises in ocean levels. An arguably more realistic view includes…
Big Pharma Uses Fuzzy Math to Discredit Discount Drug Program | naked capitalism
Yves here. It is disheartening to see how the Democratic party and elite fondness for complex programs, best of all in eligibility rules to make the poors pay for their…
Subjective Well-Being During Spain’s Decline: Evidence from Crusade Bulls | naked capitalism
Yves here. I must confess I had never heard of the Crusade Bulls before. I majored in the Industrial Revolution, and by then, the controversies over papal indulgences were over,…
As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises | naked capitalism
Yves here. While there has been a blip in the dry-out-of-the-West trend line due to monster snowfalls in many areas, this article points out one important consequence: toxic arsenic levels…
Links 5/24/2023 | naked capitalism
A Magnificent 1,000 Day Mushroom Timelapse Laughing Squid (resilc) ‘I knew aliens were real’: Marine’s footage of mystery objects over military base sparks UFO talk Raw Story (furzy) Triangle-Wheeled Bike…
An mRNA Vaccine that Works | naked capitalism
By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed…