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Value-Based Payment Is the New For-Profit Health Care Industry first appeared at Angry Bear as written by Kip Sullivan, Kay Tillow, & Ana Malinow. This came after it appeared at Truthout. I reposted this one commentary and an early one by Kip because I am starting to see more activity on Value Based medicine. It is worthwhile to go over again. Before I get started on the main text of Kip’s expert article, I wish to point out something which is...

By James Kwak By some measures, in the short term, COVID-19 will surely reduce inequality of wealth, and probably inequality of income as well. As a purely mechanical matter, the rich have a lot more money to lose when the stock market crashes and most sectors of the economy grind to a halt. Photo by Free-Photos from PixabayAt the same time, however, this pandemic is throwing into stark relief how unequal the lives of Americans are today. Most of the upper-middle class and rich seem to...

By James Kwak By some measures, in the short term, COVID-19 will surely reduce inequality of wealth, and probably inequality of income as well. As a purely mechanical matter, the rich have a lot more money to lose when the stock market crashes and most sectors of the economy grind to a halt. Photo by Free-Photos from PixabayAt the same time, however, this pandemic is throwing into stark relief how unequal the lives of Americans are today. Most of the upper-middle class and rich seem to...

“If you look at Amazon, although they’re certain benefits to it, they’ve destroyed the retail industry across the United States,” Mnuchin told CNBC. “I don’t have an opinion other than I think it’s absolutely right the attorney general is looking into these issues and I look forward to listening to his recommendations to the president.” Are we finally going to start talking about anti-trust, which. incidentally, was at the heart of US progressivism historically.ReutersTreasury's Mnuchin...

Funny.Zero HedgeOnline Retail War Turns Ugly: Wal-Mart Responds To Amazon With Free 1-Day ShippingTyler Durden

Double standard.FAIRWhen India Tries to Regulate Amazon, US Media Qualms About Monopoly Disappear John O'Day

"Is monopolization threatening capitalism?" Facebook, Google, Amazon. ProMarketEditors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (November 11-18) Editors

You heard this already but Caitlin Johnstone reminds us that this is only a token rather than a change of heart. Don't let down the guard or put the pitchforks away just yet. It ain't over by long shot. Don’t turn our fate over to depraved oligarchs for the price of a few dimes. Keep pushing these sociopathic bastards. Keep pushing them right off the stage. Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistBezos Bows To Pressure On $15/hr. Keep Pressuring Him. Keep Pressuring Them All.Caitlin...

AXIOSAmazon leaves retail competitors in the dust, claims 50% of U.S. e-commerce market Marisa Fernandez

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase are working with the e-commerce giant. Game-changer?Recode Amazon is creating a health care company with the help of Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase Jason Del Ray ht Brad DeLong at Grasping RealitySee also The e-commerce giant is muscling its way into a number of businesses that banks have long dominated. American BankerHow Amazon is shaking up financial services Keven Wack