Investment Watch Blog

Up to 15 million Americans, including 6 million kids, are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage once the public health emergency ends. State and federal officials are scrambling to prepare. Each morning when Christina Preston enters the West Community Opportunity Center that serves Ohio’s Franklin County, she knows she and her staff are going to … Read more

If you get sick, it’s whitey’s fault. The Biden administration will offer bonuses to doctors who “create and implement an anti-racism plan” under new rules from the Department of Health and Human Services, a move meant to update Medicare payments to “reflect changes in medical practice.” Effective Jan. 1, Medicare doctors can boost their reimbursement … Read more

In a chilling display of authoritarianism, Ireland’s Deputy Prime MinisterLeo Varadkar nonchalantly explained that the government may grant people occasional breaks from lockdowns or “periods of freedom” in the midst of ongoing confinement. While the future course of the pandemic is difficult to predict, Varadkar said, Ireland is facing a “long war” that could go … Read more

Eventhough according to the industry confirmed that a plane cabin is the cleanest air available for the purification process. #followthescience — patrosca (@pmoli7) December 19, 2021 h/t FEMA Region 6

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s rejection of a ban on members of Congress from trading and holding individual stock while in office. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aoc-pushed-back-on-nancy-pelosi-s-stance-against-banning-congressional-stock-trading-we-write-major-policy-and-have-access-to-sensitive-information/ar-AARWOQl?ocid=msedgntp What’s worse is that many who engage in these practices publicly tout not approving cost of living or MRA increases in the leg branch as a way … Read more

#Technology is the largest sector of the Top 100 Firms! 🇺🇸 $7.79 Trillion of total $20.55T 🇨🇳 $1.51 Trillion of $4.19T 🇪🇺 $578 Billion of $3.46T US is home to 59 of the top 100 firms & has 65% of the market cap Thx @PwC for data & @VisualCap for graphic! #CES2022 #tech pic.twitter.com/YC9zcLrPLr — … Read more

I'm aware some countries missing. I'm sorry, I don't have (as right now) the day-ahead price for several countries. It will be available later today. — Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) December 19, 2021 https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472603008706002944 Pipeline is operating at ~5% of capacity https://t.co/71CE2d9OG2 — Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) December 19, 2021     h/t Dangerous Times

I’m at my local Sam’s Club as I post this. They are fully stocked on everything but not yet limiting purchases. On paper towels and TP, they are overstocked and already limiting quantities to 1 per customer. They’re preparing for the next round of panic buying. I’m here to top off my supplies before the … Read more

Living brain cells in a dish can learn to play the video game Pong when they are placed in what researchers describe as a “virtual game world”. “We think it’s fair to call them cyborg brains,” says Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer of Cortical Labs, who leads the research. Many teams around the world have … Read more

Russian roulette. UK Scientist Reveals Bombshell Data Analysis: Tracks Batches Of Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen, Finds "..Some Batches Are 50 Times Worse Than Others" https://t.co/KtnkVt3hnn — Patriotic Trauma, MD (@PatrioticTrauma) December 18, 2021 Tess

Jimmy Dore speaks to Glenn Greenwald on Julian Assange and criminalizing journalists: @ggreenwald: "they want to create a precedent that will criminalize journalism itself" #FreeAssangeNOW @jimmy_dore pic.twitter.com/nv5GXPKrzk — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 18, 2021