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The US health disaster: US maternity death rate is 4-6 times that of all developed countries. US ranks with Russia & Ukraine. (Bloomberg)
The introduction of decent health care for all should be a leading issue in the US election campaign.
"American Mothers Are Dying Because of the U.S. Health Care System
The U.S. has an inexcusably high maternal mortality rate."
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Causes of the extreme & rising US maternal fatalities:
Ever later births (same elsewhere);
Increasing obesity (special US problem);
Limited access to health care (special US problem);
Religious obscurantism (special US problem);
Stove-piped care (special US problem).
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Trump's speech last night unleashed complete financial panic. Financial crashes have a clear logic. The next step is likely to be major bankruptcies. The natural candidates are holiday industries & airlines, but failures are often surprising.
After a few major bankruptcies, the world is likely to face a liquidity freeze as after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. A liquidity freeze characteristically hits countries in the periphery with their own currencies, which will collapse.
To bring some stability to a world in financial panic, two factors are required:
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2. Vast amounts of government liquidity.
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The impact on the Russian economy of the falling oil prices is likely to be serious and lasting. In 2008, when the oil price fell to $32 per barrel, the Russian stock market fell by 80 percent in dollar terms in the course of half a year. The Russian stock market never recovered.
This time a RTS fall of 50 percent would be natural. In 2008, Russia’s GDP slumped by 8 percent, and a decline of several percent seems likely this year.
Russia’s GDP stood at $1.65 trillion before this calamity. As the ruble usually falls with the oil price, Russia’s dollar GDP is likely to plunge to some $1 trillion, which will reduce Russia’s international leverage.
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I just arrived at Washington Dulles Airport after one week in Ukraine, flying via Istanbul with excellent Turkish Airlines. The Kyiv & Istanbul airports are impeccably clean, while Dulles is pretty dirty. In Kyiv all passengers were checked for temperature, at Dulles no measure.
Just listened to some CNN reporter who claimed that doctors would advise young people a little sick with the Corona virus to go home and live as usual, conspicuously not caring about the risk of contagion in the community. What a civic irresponsibility! & the US government?!
As almost all other countries, the US needs to start taking #COVID19 seriously! Is this a serious country or just a spin factory?
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