Mammon category archive
The Profiteers of Prejudice 0
David follows the money. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
America’s Health Scarce System 0
Mike and Farron discusses a health “insurance” company’s strategy to squeeze more profits out of anesthesized patients while they are under the knife.
The United States made a big mistake when it put for-profit companies in charge of health care.
Definitions 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal has a question:
Follow the link for her thoughts on the answer.
The Crypto Con 0
Paul Krugman asks, “Crypto! What is it good for?”*
Here’s a tiny excerpt from his piece.
Via C&L.
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*With apologies to Edwin Starr.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Completely lacking in character? Despite what its name may indicate, most definitely.
The Privatization Scam 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini makes a strong case that, in Arizona, the privatization scam just got scammier.
She Is Accused of a “Terroristic Threat” 0
Thom wanders, where’s the threat?
Health Care Schmealth Care, Reprise 0
More evidence that it’s all about the Benjamins: Elisabeth Rosenthal dissects the relabeling scam.
Health Care Schmealth Care 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that, in the United States, the health care “system” is all about the Benjamins, not about health nor care.
Methinks he makes some valid points.
The Crypto Con 0
Sam and the crew talk with Jacob Silverman, author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, about the crypto con and how the crypto con artists are infiltrating politics courtesy of Donald Trump and the Trumpettes.
This New Gilded Age 0
It would seem that I am not alone in thinking that’s where we are today.