Monthly Archives: October 2020

October 31, 2020

• Links 10/31/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Olenick: The Real Origins of Trump – The Foreclosure Crisis
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• How Wiccans and Witches Mark Halloween With Reflections on Death as Well as Magic
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

October 30, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/30/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Twitter Affected the 2016 Presidential Election
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/30/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• We Have Published 25,000 Posts! And Recently Hit 1.5 Million Comments!`
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Gig Worker Employment Fights Like Those in California Pit Flexibility Against a Livable Wage – But ‘Platform Cooperatives’ Could Ensure Workers Get Both
  by Yves Smith 6:13 am

• Glenn Greenwald Resigns from the Intercept Over Censorship of Article on Hunter and Joe Biden
  by Yves Smith 4:59 am

• The Scary Truth Is Many Senate Dems Share the Same Corporate Agenda as Amy Coney Barrett
  by Yves Smith 1:18 am

October 29, 2020

• Biden at Gettysburg and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: Division and Unity
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/29/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Donald Trump Is Putting American Workers at Risk
  by Yves Smith 12:49 pm

• Don’t Look Down! Estimating the Depth of State Covid Budget Holes
  by Yves Smith 12:36 pm

• Links 10/29/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Ending Regime Change – in Bolivia and the World
  by Yves Smith 2:16 am

October 28, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/28/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Revisiting the Rise of Italian Fascism
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/28/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Residential Evictions Bearing Down on Many Tenants
  by Yves Smith 3:46 am

• Savvy Patient Fought for the Price She Was Quoted − And Didn’t Give Up
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

• “Shadow” Lobbyists Run Rampant in the Swamp
  by Yves Smith 12:33 am

October 27, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/27/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• A (Very) Short History of the Idea of Ending Poverty
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/27/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Large UK Study Delivers Big Blow to Covid Herd Immunity Thesis, Raises Concerns About Vaccine Strategies
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

• To Beat China, US Should Tax Ray Dalio Out of Existence
  by Yves Smith 2:32 am

• Notes on a World Without Trump
  by Yves Smith 12:22 am

October 26, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/26/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• So Trump Loses. What Happens Then?
  by Lambert Strether 11:42 am

• Links 10/26/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 5 – The Battle to Protect Airline Investors From Economic Reality Enters a New Phase
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Covid Spikes in Europe, US Before Winter Is Here
  by Yves Smith 5:04 am

• Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Truth
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

October 25, 2020

• Fourteen of My Favorite Flowers
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 10/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Shipwrecked by Rents
  by Lambert Strether 6:38 am

October 24, 2020

• Links 10/24/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Limited Liability: Profit Without Responsibility
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• Housing Market Goes Nuts, Everyone Sees it, But it Can’t Last
  by Yves Smith 4:21 am

October 23, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/23/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Trust and Compliance with Public Health Policies in the Time of COVID-19
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/23/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Goldman Gets Off Easy in 1MDB Scandal Despite Further $2.9 Billion in Payments, Criminal Charge Against Malaysian Sub
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• The East Mediterranean Crisis Could Ignite a Greek-Turkish Proxy War
  by Yves Smith 1:48 am

October 22, 2020

• Live Blog: Presidential Primary Debate #2 in Nashville, TN
  by Lambert Strether 8:30 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/22/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: Right to Repair as Remedy for School Computer Shortage?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 10/22//2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• What Developing Countries Can Teach Rich Countries About How to Respond to a Pandemic
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• CalPERS: Poster Child of Private Equity Cargo Cultism
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Profits Over Human Life? ER Doctor’s Story Is Fearful Lesson for U.S. Workers During Pandemic
  by Yves Smith 1:02 am

October 21, 2020

• Will There Be a Second Dust Bowl? And What Happened to the Topsoil From the First One?
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/21/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• COVID Testing and Contact Tracing in RI, the UK, and NYC: a Personal Anecdote/Saga
  by Lambert Strether 12:15 pm

• Links 10/21/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home Equity
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• The Fed’s New Policy Framework: A Major Improvement But More Can Be Done
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

October 20, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/20/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• U.S. Supreme Court Rejects GOP Call Not to Extend Deadline for Mail-In Ballots
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 10/20/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Waste Watch: New York Begins Enforcing Plastic Bag Ban
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• COVID-19: Examining Theories for Africa’s Low Death Rates
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

• Can Hunter Biden Be Both Right and Wrong, Both Innocent and Guilty? Yes He Can.
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 am

October 19, 2020

• Paul Romer Comes Out Against Contact Tracing in the United States (which Biden Supports)
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Pandemic Causes Food Security to Wobble, While Much of Rural India Still Continues to be Underfed
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 7:55 am

• “Fiscal Cliffication” Continues as the Election Looms
  by Lambert Strether 7:45 am

• Links 10/19/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• WHO is Right: Lockdowns Should Be Short and Sharp. Here Are 4 Other Essential COVID-19 Strategies
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

October 18, 2020

• With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public
  by Yves Smith 2:49 pm

• Eating More Chocolate: A Cure for Pandemic Fatigue?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 10/18/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• AOC and Other Top Progressives Urge Biden—If Elected—to Deny K Street, Wall Street Execs Top Cabinet Posts
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

October 17, 2020

• Links 10/17/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How To Break the Covid Doom Loop
  by Yves Smith 4:04 am

October 16, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/16/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 10/16/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• An Indictment of the “Standard Model” for Pension and Endowment Investing
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Brexit: Standoff
  by Yves Smith 4:49 am

• Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies
  by Yves Smith 2:08 am

• Pandemics and Inequality: A Historical Overview
  by Yves Smith 12:01 am

October 15, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/15/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 10/15/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• College Enrollments Drop Due to Covid, Adding to Budget Damage
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Milton Friedman Versus Stakeholder Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 6:48 am

• Bill Would Clamp Down on Cops Collecting DNA From Kids
  by Yves Smith 5:01 am

October 14, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Why Saudi Arabia May Be Forced To Start Another Oil Price War
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• EU Wins WTO Ruling on Boeing Subsidies, Following WTO Ruling for the US on Airbus Subsidies. Tariff War On?
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• Why Has Mayoral Candidate Scott Stringer Invested New York City Pensions in Private Equity Firms Like Blackstone?
  by Yves Smith 6:11 am

• Why the George Floyd Protests Succeeded Where Others Failed
  by Yves Smith 1:15 am

October 13, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Corporate Law Consequences: Amy Coney Barrett Nomination
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 10/13/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• As Trump Touts His ‘Great’ COVID Drugs, the Pharma Cash Flows to Biden, Not Him
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• What Did Billionaire Leon Black of Apollo Get for >$50 Million in Fees to Jeffrey Epstein?
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

• What Should Europe Expect from American Trade Policy After the Election?
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

October 12, 2020

• Have the Democrats Risked Ruin by Increasing Vaccine Hesitancy in the Electorate?
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Battle Rages Inside Hospitals Over How COVID Strikes and Kills: Aerosols or Droplets
  by Lambert Strether 11:05 am

• Links 10/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Citi’s Recidivist Rule-Breaking and Incompetence Shows Persistence of Too Big/Complex to Fail Problem
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• Michael Klare: How the US Plays Nuclear Chicken with Russia and China
  by Yves Smith 5:14 am

October 11, 2020

• Why the Phrase “Access to Health Care” Should Always Pin Your Bullsh*t Detector (and You’re Not Alone)
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 pm

• Links 10/11/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Low Labour Shortages Can Help Explain Sluggish Wage Growth
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

October 10, 2020

• Links 10/10/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Pandemic Erects Barriers for Prized Bloc of Voters in Nursing Homes, Senior Facilities
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

October 9, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘A Definite and Sustained Increase’: Europe Leads Record Single-Day Worldwide Covid-19 Infection Surge
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/9/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Says She’s Not in Charge and Lies to the Board About Receiving a Warning from the Fair Political Practices Commission
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• New York City Seeks to Shortchange Teachers on $900 Million of Back Pay
  by Yves Smith 3:06 am

• Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
  by Yves Smith 1:06 am

October 8, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/8/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry Demonstrates How the US Patent Office Screws Inventors
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

October 7, 2020

• Down to the Wire, Last Chance for Our 2020 Fundraiser!
  by Yves Smith 9:40 pm

• Live Blog: Vice-Presidential Debate in Salt Lake City, UT
  by Lambert Strether 8:30 pm

• Countdown!
  by Yves Smith 6:15 pm

• Closing Hours of the 2020 Fundraiser, About to Hit Our New $ and Donor Targets!
  by Yves Smith 2:10 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Procrastinators of the World, Unite! Last Day, Last Chance for Our Fundraiser!
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Trump Shoots His Campaign in the Head
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Brexit: Running the Clock Down
  by Yves Smith 6:09 am

• Chamber of Commerce Quietly Supports a United Government Led by Democrats
  by Yves Smith 5:26 am

October 6, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/6/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Covid-19 and the Global Addiction to Cheap Migrant Labor
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Right to Repair Redux: Massachusetts Ballot Questions
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 8:55 am

• Links 10/6/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Thomas Frank’s Essential Insight – True Populism Is Transracial: An Interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Daniel Ellsberg on the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism
  by Yves Smith 6:44 am

October 5, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Announcing the 2020 Harry Shearer and Friends “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
  by Yves Smith 12:15 pm

• Pandemics and Inequality
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/05/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Best Part of This Week
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

• Michael Olenick: The Surprisingly Short Road from Abolitionism to Credit Bureaus
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Macro N Cheese – Debt Deflation and the Neofeudal Empire with Michael Hudson
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Top Law Firms Called Out for Serving Fossil Fuel Industry Clients in New Climate ‘Scorecard’
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

October 4, 2020

• A Day in the Life of the Daily Links Post at Naked Capitalism
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Why Don’t We Study Countries That Have Had COVID-19 Success?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 10/4/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Chamber Of Commerce Dems From The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party Just Undercut Pelosi’s Pandemic Negotiations With Mnuchin
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

October 3, 2020

• Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
  by Yves Smith 11:07 am

• Links 10/3/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

• “Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump”
  by Yves Smith 6:11 am

October 2, 2020

• “I Need My Nake!”
  by Yves Smith 5:26 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/2/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• As of September 29, 2020, 5 Federal Courts Have Ruled Against the Postal Service
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/2/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How Corruption is Becoming America’s Operating System
  by Yves Smith 5:23 am

• Brexit: Confrontation
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

• San Francisco Rents in Free-Fall. New York Rents Swoon. Expensive Cities, College Towns, Cities in Texas, Other States Sag. But in 16 Cities, Rents Jump Double-Digits
  by Yves Smith 2:34 am

October 1, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/1/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Naked Capitalism: Countering the Spin of the Mainstream Media
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:30 pm

• WATCH: Katie Porter, Squad Members Eviscerate Big Pharma CEOs Over ‘Exorbitant’ Drug Prices
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/1/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Why Americans Need Debt Jubilees, Helicopter Money, and 21st-Century Greenbacks: A 45-minute Conversation with Richard Vague
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Election Violence in November? Here’s What the Research Says
  by Yves Smith 5:20 am

• Google/Fitbit Will Monetize Health Data and Harm Consumers
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am