…releasing the Sacklers from any liability in promotion and the sale of Oxycontin, etc. Supreme Court tosses opioid settlement worth billions for states, victims, USA TODAY and also at MSN….

…and promised that I’d explain them in my next post. Here are those four mechanisms. (Ignoring liabilities and net worth for the moment; just focusing here on the assets for…

…been screwing them. Not even the picture of what went to the billionaires will sway them. “The Billionaire Century,” Americans for Tax Fairness. America’s roughly 800 billionaires are collectively worth…

…month]: “Consumption has historically led employment, and this suggests weaker monthly employment reports in the months ahead.”  It’s worth noting that in the graph above, real personal spending on goos…

…effort, persistence, determination, and a lot of conversations. But I think they’re well worth having because we’ve lived the alternative, which is to operate on this issue as if it’s…

…$100 trillion. In 2014, scholars estimated that ecosystem services were worth $125 trillion per year based on 2007 data, and that the value those ecosystem services has already fallen by around $15…

…prisons with systems worth emulating, however. Mountain View Correctional Facility in Maine operates a garden and bakery staffed by the people incarcerated there. The fresh produce, as well as homemade…

…working. Start writing that way.” Just yesterday, the administration announced $100 million worth of investments in new housing in the form of grants to state and local governments to spur…

…cure for HIV/AIDS, so economists have gotten more and more creative. (Can we just ignore exact values and say “it’s worth infinite”? Not when it comes to making choices, i.e.,…

…and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank in Ohio that produces market-based research on the energy transition, states: “It’s worth noting that not one single CCS project has…