‘The intelligence coup of the century’

Lebanon’s Imminent Financial Crisis

U.S. Higher Education Has a Foreign Money Problem

This sentence explains why attempts to control health care costs invariable devolve into controlling the wages of health care providers. “As real incomes rise, the relative price of goods falls while the relative price of services increases. This is likely a consequence rich countries increasing productivity in goods substantially more rapidly than that of services” Don’t be fooled by the headlines. The biggest cost in health care is not drug prices (no matter how unreasonable they are) but labor costs. Cost savings in health care will invariable focus on controlling wages, substituting more low skilled labor, and generally ensuring less human to human interaction. If you don’t have time to read the longer essay linked above, this post gives you some excerpts.

Air Escape from Java

Tax Games: Big Pharma Versus Big Tech

Buried in IG Report: How an FBI Team in Rome Gave Steele Highly Guarded Secrets

Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover

Egypt has confirmed its first case of coronavirus

Coronavirus: How the outbreak is testing China’s vaunted surveillance technology

Barely a month old, California’s poorly designed “gig-work” law is already having unintended consequences.

I don’t agree with this but throwing it out there for the sake of balance. Coronavirus Is Bad. Comparing It to the Flu Is Worse