“It is 2022 and it is fundamentally unacceptable that there are still two standards of care...We have seen in the face of pandemics that weak health systems including underinvestment in the health workforce affects not only the health of Africa but that of the world. The status quo is no...
where the steel-and-glass tower that houses Arcane Sciences and the World Headquarters of the Order of the Shrill looms high above the campus, where the trees have been twisted into eldritch shapes by the strange forms of radiation emanating from the brains of those who have delved too closel...
Egregious Moderation: For people who want one online source for punchy liberal political analysis and evisceration; especially evisceration. I'll form it out of a batting order of twelve (which I will change from time to time), plus occasional guest stars: the twelve people who I would most ...
(as I've been muttering around the office, the only real scandal in Kosland is that Markos is a bit of an egomaniac, but I assume you'd have to be in order to succeed in creating a massive online community) in which the key metric for judging TNR's degree of progressivism isn't ...
Goldman has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of misrepresenting its issues of collaterized debt obligations in order to get investors to take the long-end of the housing market. This is a serious accusation and presents the possibility of substantial civil, if not criminal ...
the global economy is insufficient. A college diploma, he warns, "may lose its exalted 'silver bullet' status." It isn't how many years one spends in school that will matter, he says, it's choosing to learn the skills for jobs that cannot easily be delivered electronically from afar.....
Mr Bernanke said that “at some point” the Fed would have to tighten monetary policy in order to avert a spike in inflation, which he described as “subdued”. The Fed has this month laid out its vision for the sequence of measures it expects to take in order to shrink the money supp...
Treasury bond's status as a safe asset and thus increase, not decrease, the excess demand for AAA assets and increase, not decrease, the excess supply of recently-produced commodities and labor. And it is not rocket science. But it is, however, cutting-edge economics--cutting edge for ...