Monthly Archives: September 2021

September 30, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/30/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
  by Yves Smith 4:39 am

September 29, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Involuntary Psychiatric Care: The Part of the ‘Free Britney’ Saga That Could Happen to Anyone
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/29/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty Debate Inequality, Debt, and Reform
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• Jared Holst: Rolling with the Holmies
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

September 28, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• UK’s National Health Service Still Playing Fast and Loose With Patients’ Health Data
  by Nick Corbishley 6:55 am

• Links 9/28/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Vaccine-Only Mandates as a Manifestation of the Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

• For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

September 27, 2021

• Direct Contracting Entities: The Latest Scam to Privatize Medicare
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Patent Buyouts Can Help Win the Race Against Coronavirus Mutations
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 9/27/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Michael Hudson on Renegade Inc.: China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Nick Turse: Remembering America’s Civilian War Dead
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

September 26, 2021

• Jackpot Readiness: The (Literal) Pressure Cooker
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• Links 9/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Public Health Experts ‘Flabbergasted’ That Biden Still Hasn’t Picked an FDA Chief
  by Lambert Strether 6:51 am

September 25, 2021

• Links 9/25/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• When McDonalds Came to Denmark
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

• Federal Police Reform Talks Have Failed – But Local Efforts Stand a Better Chance of Success
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

September 24, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/24/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• It Isn’t Over When The Fat Lady Sings – The First Russian Strategic Assessment of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) Submarine Deal
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• HSBC Bet the Bank on China, Now It’s Paying the Price
  by Nick Corbishley 6:57 am

• Links 9/24/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• “Yes, AOC’s Dress Was Performative Politics, But She Got Her Point Across”
  by Yves Smith 4:14 am

• Rapid Shift to Clean Energy Could Save ‘Trillions.’ But Corporate-Backed Groups Are Fighting the Transition in US Budget Bill
  by Yves Smith 3:39 am

September 23, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/23/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/23/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Waste Watch: Ocean Cleanup Yields Meager Results
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• CalPERS Devises “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” Gamble for Long-Term Care Policyholders in Settlement
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

• The European Energy Crisis Is About To Go Global
  by Yves Smith 1:54 am

September 22, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/22/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Lasting Impact of the Covid Crisis on Economic Potential
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/22/21
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Mexico’s AMLO Just Made Washington and Ottawa an Offer They’ll Probably Refuse
  by Nick Corbishley 6:49 am

• Algorithmic Management
  by Yves Smith 5:09 am

• Record Level of American Men Foregoing College
  by Yves Smith 4:46 am

September 21, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/21/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Rationing, Anyone?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/21/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Can China’s Outsized Real Estate Sector Amplify a Delta-Induced Slowdown?
  by Yves Smith 5:26 am

September 20, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 9/20/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Wolf Richter: What a Collapse of China’s Evergrande Would Mean
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Matt Stoller: #OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Can the Economy Afford NOT To Fight Climate Change?
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

September 19, 2021

• Global Coral Coverage Down by Half Since the 1950s
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/19/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• A Football World Cup Every Two Years? An Expert Runs the Numbers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

September 18, 2021

• Links 9/18/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Covax Misses its 2021 Delivery Target – What’s Gone Wrong in the Fight Against Vaccine Nationalism?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• US Urged to End Drone Strikes After Pentagon Says Killing 10 Afghan Civilians Was ‘Horrible Mistake’
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:35 am

September 17, 2021

• Musical Interlude: Fathers and Sons
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Spanish Government Infuriates Energy Giants By Making Them Pay for Soaring Electricity Prices
  by Nick Corbishley 6:56 am

• Links 9/17/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Symptoms Show American Culture Is Transitioning into a Violent Oligarchy
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

September 16, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/16/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Sports Desk: Top College Athletes Strike Endorsement Deals; Meanwhile, the NCAA Seeks to Influence Pending Federal Legislation
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 9/16/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• New York Bans Sale of Fossil Fuel Vehicles From 2034 Onward
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Wolf Richter: Business Travel, Conventions, Office Occupancy Stuck in Collapse: Been so Long, People Forgot What Old Normal Was
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:25 am

September 15, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/15/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Forceful Vaccine Messages Backfire With Holdouts – How Can It Be Done Better?
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 9/15/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• CalPERS’ Long-Term Care Fiasco: Private Burial to Hide Malfeasance, Failure to Implement Legislation
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Social Security COLA for 2022 To Be Near 5.8%, Could Match 2009, Biggest Since 1982
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

September 14, 2021

• Is the UK’s Cladding Crisis About to Get Even Worse?
  by Nick Corbishley 2:07 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• 18 Vaccine Experts, Including Top FDA Scientists, Publish Review in The Lancet Saying Current Evidence Doesn’t Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for the Fully Vaccinated
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• The Counterinsurgency Myth
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/14/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Up to Half of the $14 Trillion Spent by Pentagon Since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:25 am

September 13, 2021

• Biden’s Speech on Covid Vaccine Mandates, Annotated
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• Indigenous Resistance Instrumental in Stopping High-Profile Fossil Fuel Projects, Says Report
  by Lambert Strether 4:12 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 9/13/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Winner in Afghanistan: China
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• Wait and See: The Labor Market Implications of Economic Uncertainty
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

September 12, 2021

• 9/11 Twenty Years On and On and On….
  by Lambert Strether 3:15 pm

• Links 9/12/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• There’s One Surefire Way to End Big Sewage Spills: End Big Sewage
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

September 11, 2021

• Links 9/11/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Port Authority Cop Who Survived 13 Hours Under Collapsed Towers Shares Message of Darkness and Light
  by Yves Smith 1:23 am

• Elite Educators Have Milked the System for Long Enough
  by Yves Smith 12:44 am

September 10, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/10/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EPA Takes Steps to Block Pebble Mine on Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Thus Protecting World’s Largest Sockeye Salmon Run
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 9/10/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Big Oil Deploys Social Media To Shape Agenda on Climate Change and Environmentalists Have Failed to Respond Effectively
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:54 am

• Our Two Covid Problems
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

September 9, 2021

• New York Times Exalts Vegan Frankenfoods
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/9/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 9/9/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• After a Long, Hard Summer, Southern Europe’s Long Awaited Tourism Recovery Remains Largely Elusive
  by Nick Corbishley 6:51 am

• Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

September 8, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: New EPA Reports Document Chemical and Plastics Contamination in Compost
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 9/8/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• A Climate Disaster Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes—And Politicians Still Refuse to Take Action
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• US as Failed State: Covid Booster Shot Mess
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
  by Yves Smith 12:01 am

September 7, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/7/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It
  by Nick Corbishley 6:53 am

• What I Did Over Labor Day (Dimash!)
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed
  by Yves Smith 1:41 am

• The Downton Abbey Effect: British Aristocratic Matches with American Business Heiresses in the Late 19th Century
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

September 6, 2021

• Red List: More than a Quarter of Species Worldwide Face Extinction; Meanwhile, a Local NYC Group Protects Piping Plovers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 9/6/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• An Entire Generation of Americans Has No Idea How Easy Air Travel Used to Be
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

September 5, 2021

• Waste Watch: Russia, UK Adopt Single Use Plastics Bans
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 pm

• Allow Least Developed Countries to Develop
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 9/5/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

September 4, 2021

• Links 9/4/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Neoliberalism Is Dying – Now We Must Replace It
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

• Book Review: The Rise of Harm Reduction in the War on Drugs
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

September 3, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/3/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘America Has a Monopoly Problem’: Coalition Backs Legislation to Break Up Big Tech
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/3/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why Are Spanish Companies Beating a Retreat from Latin America?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:47 am

• CalPERS Election Dirty Tricks: Hit Piece Depicts Board Member Margaret Brown as Safety Harrasser
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

• Northeast Pummeled with Colossal Flooding, Destructive Tornadoes
  by Yves Smith 3:27 am

September 2, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/2/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Mask Mandates Save Lives
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/2/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Cost of Corporate America: Checking Your Conscience at the Door
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• ‘Catastrophic Injustice’: Judge OKs Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan Shielding Sacklers
  by Yves Smith 6:31 am

• Lack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
  by Yves Smith 12:28 am

September 1, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 9/1/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Star Trek Versus Imperialist Doctrine
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/1/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Behold the Watered Stock’s New Variant!
  by Yves Smith 6:22 am

• Michael Hudson v. George Soros on China’s Rejection of “Market” Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Prominent CalPERS Retiree Group Warns California Secretary of State About Illegal, Hacking-Friendly Voting Methods
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am