Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 061522

 

The War on Economics: Many progressives view the dismal science as their adversary. Yet it has often proved to be a singularly powerful ally.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/the-war-on-economics-elizabeth-popp-berman-thinking-like-an-economist

 

The Baby Formula Crisis Shows the Risks of Corporate Concentration: The government may be able to provide a quick fix to the deepening emergency. Solving the problem’s root cause will be substantially more difficult.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166519/baby-formula-shortage-corporate-concentration

 

Ask Prof Wolff: 3 Ways Government Has Historically Curbed Inflation - May 18, 2022  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_SN-QCmNk

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Economic Implications of Abortion Access - May 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5zbeTBDOM

 

Abolish Employment - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - May 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKB3_UZeP24

 

Economic Update: War and the Left - May 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_I85RxL-kM

 

GOP Puppets Try to Stop Student Debt Cancellation - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - May 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZ7ok4yYxg

 

Ask Prof Wolff: How Worker Co-ops Handle Bankruptcy - May 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K9WMhmdZW0

 

Economic Cost of Mass Shootings Exposed Featuring Prof. Richard Wolff - May 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmaqfgb1_s

 

Wolff Responds: Why Economic Policy = Class Struggle - Premiered May 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbk9bKl4L5w

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Gas Taxes and Inflation - May 27, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvr0DBMR1pg

 

The Socialism That Focuses Too Much on Government - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - May 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghF_cIsAqsU

 

Economic Update: Capitalism's Flaws Fester - Premiered May 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaypZo6zTt4

 

What's Happening with U.S. Baby Formula? - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - May 31, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl0xqgtmnVA

 

U.S. Child Care Crisis - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - May 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=worunF_-KPs

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Capitalism Doesn't Care About You - Jun 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981q3W_jM1s

 

Ask Prof Wolff: How To Build A Strong Left Movement - Jun 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggfC_uQlQk

 

Economic Update: The System is the Problem - Premiered June 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRGv3SWq66o

 

Inflation Is Undemocratic - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Jun 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvHJKocJsE

 

Calling out Romney's "Fairness" Argument Regarding Student Debt Relief - Economic Update - Jun 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHOjHP54Ys

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Top Down or Bottom Up - Proudhon vs. Marx - Jun 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSzOion2tJE

 

Economic Update: Is The US Facing Another Civil War? - Premiered Jun 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-c5YN98No

 

A snapshot of America's 99% and its billionaires - Richard Wolff on Economic Update - Jun 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCUZNFpZE2w

 

Jim Hightower: The inflation blame game

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-the-inflation-blame-game/article_8fa67b96-cbfd-11ec-8664-2faf97729c72.html

 

Jim Hightower: Bovine Excrement

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-bovine-excrement/article_ded2d084-c64e-11ec-ab4b-0bc371c56d52.html

 

Dreaming of Better Streaming

https://www.creators.com/read/froma-harrop/04/22/dreaming-of-better-streaming

 

Price Controls Could Tame Inflation: Corporate monopolies are already controlling prices — to keep them high. It’s time to do something about it.

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Hauter.html

 

Outsourcing Children’s Safety

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Conway.html

 

The Surge in Imports and the Drop in GDP: Offloading the Ships Lined Up Offshore

https://cepr.net/the-surge-in-imports-and-the-drop-in-gdp-offloading-the-ships-lined-up-offshore/

 

Fed Up with the Fed

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Joseph.html

 

We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media: Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/we-cannot-rely-on-billionaires-to-create-necessary-guardrails-on-social-media/

 

How Young Workers Are Unionizing Starbucks. By: Sonali Kolhatkar

https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/how-young-workers-are-unionizing-starbucks-by-sonali-kolhatkar

 

A Capitalist Conscience: Do ‘Our Better Angels’ Jibe with Profits?

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Retsinas.html

 

Is There Still a Role for Public Health?

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Uretsky.html

 

A Tale of Two Healthcare Systems

https://www.populist.com/28.10.OLeary.html

 

When I’m 65

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Friedman.html

 

Unsafe Employers Endanger Workers

https://www.populist.com/28.10.Sandronsky.html

 

An Obamacare fiasco could blow up on Democrats right before the midterms: It could all come down to … Joe Manchin.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/20/democrats-affordable-care-act-biden-manchin-00033902

 

Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex: Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex

 

Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/18/927043767/rare-monkeypox-outbreak-in-u-k-and-europe-what-is-it-and-should-we-worry

 

Psychedelics: how they act on the brain to relieve depression

https://www.rawstory.com/psychedelics-how-they-act-on-the-brain-to-relieve-depression/

 

New York Is Facing a Pandemic-Fueled Home Energy Crisis, With No End in Sight: More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an average of $1,427.71 in debt, and shut-offs are increasing.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052022/new-york-utility-bills/

 

Senate Republicans Want Your Cleaning Lady to Pay Income Tax, but Not FedEx: Dwindling revenues from corporate taxes are beggaring the Treasury, and the GOP doesn’t care.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166537/senate-republicans-corporate-taxes-dwindling

 

Eliminate IMF surcharges immediately!

https://debtgwa.net/statements/eliminate-imf-surcharges-immediately

 

Canceling student debt would be 'very unfair' and favor those who make 'lots of money in their lifetime,' former Fed Chair Bernanke says [Spoken like a typical capitalist]

https://www.businessinsider.com/canceling-student-debt-very-unfair-favor-wealthy-fed-chair-bernanke-2022-5

 

How Private Equity is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich - May 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaSn0iqzVv4

 

How the War Has Led to a “New High” in World Hunger

https://katiecouric.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-food-shortage/

 

WATCH LIVE: Attorney General Merrick Garland holds news briefing to discuss market manipulation - Streamed live May 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCZZ0xL0nM

 

The Real Motive Behind the GOP's “Culture War” | Robert Reich - May 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nO8cBD79k

 

Is the Typical CEO Really Worth $15 Million?  Of course not. But that’s what they make as they profit from the inflation that’s hurting the middle class.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166509/skyrocketing-ceo-pay-corporate-america

 

Don’t Boycott Amazon: They’re too big to be hurt by individual consumer choice. Instead, hit them where it really hurts.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/amazon-monopoly-boycott/

 

Robert Reich Testifies Before Senate Budget Committee - May 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJeYAxLvJLU

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Connection - The Foundation of Mental Health - Premiered May 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-3Q8K592r0

 

Monkeypox Cases Go Global | The Mehdi Hasan Show - May 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeNH8FOFY14

 

How Bernie Sanders' Wall Street Tax Would Work

https://www.npr.org/2016/02/12/466465333/sanders-favors-a-speculation-tax-on-big-wall-street-firms-what-is-that

 

Researchers restore brain immune system function after prenatal exposure to environmental toxin

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/neuroscience/researchers-restore-brain-immune-system-function-after-prenatal-exposure-to-environmental-toxin

 

Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01043-3

 

Beyond fluid buildup: Rethinking congenital hydrocephalus

https://answers.childrenshospital.org/congenital-hydrocephalus/

 

Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why.  Some girls are starting to develop breasts as early as age 6 or 7. Researchers are studying the role of obesity, chemicals and stress.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/science/early-puberty-medical-reason.html

 

Birth Defect Research for Children

https://birthdefects.org/

 

Why It Took 35 Years to Develop the First Malaria Vaccine: The parasite’s tricky biology is only part of the problem.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/05/why-took-so-long-malaria-vaccine/

 

Why can't the US stop soaring oil and gas prices?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61446317?fbclid=IwAR3IYTEYesTGBWCR-NxVdp12nSsTjsP_JTZL3LGl8Fb4hytq03HqcI6pZko

 

Homeopathy Manufacturer Boiron Sued for Deceiving Consumers with Junk Meds

https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/homeopathy-manufacturer-boiron-sued-for-deceiving-consumers-with-junk-meds/

 

What Did Neoliberalism Do to Democracy? w/ Stephanie Mudge | Social Democracy #7 - Premiered May 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWwDBTeMlM

 

A third of Philly’s building inspectors have quit since 2019. Critics say that threatens public safety.

The longtime problem appears to be getting worse amid what a union official called a "mass exodus" of inspectors.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-building-safety-staffing-shortages-inspections-20220526.html

 

Companies blanket Pa. with ads about how to get a medical marijuana card, but doctors are silenced

With millions of dollars at stake, certification businesses buy radio ads, dominate Google searches, and even offer Groupons. But if doctors do the same, they risk their license.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/spl/pennsylvania-medical-marijuana-card-doctor-advertising-20220526.html

 

Big Oil Rewarded Shareholders Instead Of Production And Now Americans Face Record Gas Prices –March 8, 2022

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/03/08/big-oil-rewarded-shareholders-instead-of-production-and-now-americans-face-record-gas-prices.html

 

How Corporations Are Using Inflation To Take Your Money - May 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQouk7gmTM

 

The Vampire Ship: How the seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East

https://newrepublic.com/article/159252/noor-one-vampire-ship-heroin-turkey-greece-corruption-scandal

 

Like capitalism itself, business journalism is broken. Can it be fixed? Talking to New York Times reporter David Gelles about the implosion of capitalism, the failure of the business press to tell that story, and how it can do better now

https://the.ink/p/like-capitalism-itself-business-journalism

 

The Next Recession Will Make Income Inequality a Lot Worse: We used to think a silver lining to economic downturns was that inequality halted. But new research suggests recessions speed inequality up.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166647/next-recession-income-inequality-worse

 

Biden says inflation is top priority after meeting with Fed Chair Jerome Powell: The president said that the Federal Reserve will play a key role in lowering the highest inflation in decades but that he wouldn’t “interfere with their critically important work.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-meet-federal-reserve-chair-powell-inflation-woes-rcna31205

 

Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas social media law

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/tech/supreme-court-texas-social-media-ruling/index.html

 

Supreme Court Hands Social Media Giants a Win but Invites Conservatives to Try Their Luck Again: A shadow-docket decision spared Facebook and Twitter from a Texas law that would have prevented them from moderating their platforms.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166665/social-media-texas-supreme-court

 

Robert Reich Explains How the Trump “Tax Cuts” Shafted the Middle Class - May 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3jBG3_tp_E

 

Farmers Markets are Bountiful This Time of Year in California: The state has some 700 markets featuring some of the world’s best produce — but it took legislative changes in the 1970s to help them flourish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/us/farmers-markets-california.html

 

Stop making excuses for greedy gas and oil companies

https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/opinion/2022/06/02/stop-making-excuses-greedy-gas-and-oil-companies/7473860001/

 

The Power Center of Capitalism Has Shifted - David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Jun 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPxKK0UioEk

 

S.2992 - American Innovation and Choice Online Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2992

 

S.2710 - Open App Markets Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2710

 

America's new labor market

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/pandemic-new-labor-market

 

Public Service Loan Forgiveness: What It Is, How It Works.  PSLF discharges any remaining federal student loan balance after borrowers make 10 years' worth of payments.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/public-service-loan-forgiveness

 

Comment: Poor People Gonna Rise Up

https://progressive.org/magazine/poor-people-gonna-rise-up-barber-pelles/

 

DHS Reversal Puts Seniors at Risk

https://progressive.org/latest/dhs-reversal-puts-seniors-at-risk-lueders-220503/

 

Stop Pandemic Price Gouging

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Edit.html

 

Meatpackers Needed ‘To See Some Results!’

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Guebert.html

 

It’s Time to Stop Profiteering at the Pump: High gas prices, climate change, and the war in Ukraine share a common cause.

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Owens.html

 

The Stock Market’s Slow Collapse: What it means for the real economy and the fortunes of Democrats

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Kuttner.html

 

Plenty of Food, But Not for All Farmworkers

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Lincoln.html

 

Stopping Attacks on Health Care Workers

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Conway.html

 

America’s Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers: Those of us who work in hospitals see firsthand the carnage wrought by guns. But as the recent mass shooting at a Tulsa hospital shows, we’re also often the victims of violence.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166692/tulsa-hospital-shooting-epidemic-violence-health-care-workers

 

Time to Replace Deadly ‘Wile E. Coyote Healthcare’ With Lifesaving Medicare for All

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Eskow.html

 

President Biden and the Price of Gas

https://cepr.net/president-biden-and-the-price-of-oil/

 

As the Planet Warms, Let's Be Clear: We are Sacrificing Lives for Profits.  Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.

https://www.populist.com/28.11.Kolhatkar.html

 

The Rent Is Too Damn High: Rents in New York City and around the country are at record levels. Is this forever?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166652/why-is-rent-so-high

 

How Disney World Struck a Deal With Florida to Govern Itself: The resort’s real magic lies in the powers it’s afforded by a special district.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166511/disney-world-reedy-creek-florida-deal

 

The Theft of the Commons: Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed by the landed, and the age of private property was born.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-theft-of-the-commons

 

Sara Nelson on the Drive to Unionize Delta Flight Attendants

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/politics-and-more/sara-nelson-on-the-drive-to-unionize-delta-flight-attendants

 

World Bank Warns of Global Economic Slowdown, More Inflation

https://www.voanews.com/a/world-bank-warns-of-global-economic-slowdown-more-inflation-/6606865.html

 

Does Biden Really Think the Saudis Will Help Him on Gas Prices?  The president is desperate for some relief at the pump for Americans before November—even if it means shaking the hand of Jamal Khashoggi’s killer.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166717/biden-mbs-saudi-arabia-gas-prices

 

We Should Have Busted OPEC While We Had the Chance: The cartel clearly violates more than one U.S. law. We could help lower gas prices by going after it. So why don’t we?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166752/opec-cartel-gas-prices

 

$3,374,629,000,000: Federal Tax Collections Set Record Through May

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/3374629000000-federal-tax-collections-set-record-through-may

 

Cancer Gone Viral: The road from pain to liver cancer… and the cure

https://www.sparrow.science/cancer-gone-viral-the-road-from-pain-to-liver-cancer-and-the-cure/

 

Cancer Gone Viral: How HIV infection ramps up cancer risk

https://www.sparrow.science/cancer-gone-viral-how-hiv-infection-ramps-up-cancer-risk/

 

CFPA is urgently searching for a new Executive Assistant

https://peacecoalition.org/take-action/1303-help-wanted.html?emci=9f6609a9-47eb-ec11-b47a-281878b83d8a&emdi=d14c159b-4feb-ec11-b47a-281878b83d8a&ceid=264508

 

As WTO Ministerial Opens, Civil Society Slams Rich Nations for Acting as Big Pharma 'Henchmen': "We are deeply concerned that rich nations are negotiating to protect the interests of pharmaceutical corporations... whatever the cost to public health," said one campaigner.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/13/wto-ministerial-opens-civil-society-slams-rich-nations-acting-big-pharma-henchmen

 

States With The Best Public School Systems

https://www3.forbes.com/money/states-with-the-best-public-school-systems-v3/2/

 

New Book: Jack Welch Broke Capitalism, Ushered In an Era of Distrust | Amanpour and Company - Jun 13, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCSbdNsLQk

 

My message to Fox News viewers. - Jun 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pGE2LBSUk

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