Monthly Archives: January 2022

January 31, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Reddit, r/antiwork, the FOX Interview, What Was Said (and What Might Have Been Said)
  by Lambert Strether 1:58 pm

• Links 1/31/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Covid Situation Continuing to Develop Not Necessarily to the Officialdom’s Advantage
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The American Hyper-Focus on Individualism Makes Us Poorer, Sicker, and Sadder
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• Russia/Ukraine: The Donkey Turd Bomb and US Empire in Europe – How It Began, How It Is Ending
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

January 30, 2022

• The Romance of Shipping Container Lashing
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 1/30/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• I Write About America’s Absurd Health Care System. Then I Got Caught Up in It.
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

January 29, 2022

• Links 1/29/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Bad as QE Was, Unwinding It Rapidly Could Be Worse
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

• Book Review: The Science Behind Aesop’s Menagerie
  by Yves Smith 4:54 am

January 28, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/28/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/28/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Financialization of Housing in Europe Is Intensifying, New Report Warns
  by Nick Corbishley 6:55 am

• Navigating Russia/Ukraine Warmongering Disinformation
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• California Could Be on the Verge of Passing Single-Payer Health Care
  by Yves Smith 3:31 am

January 27, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/27/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/27/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

• Construction Costs Spike 17.5%, Worst Since at Least 1965. Inventories of New Houses Pile Up, Highest Since 2008. Median Price Dives as Mix Shifts
  by Yves Smith 6:29 am

• EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

January 26, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/26/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How 5G Puts Airplanes at Risk – An Electrical Engineer Explains
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/26/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Pfizer Launches Clinical Trial for Omicron Booster Awfully Late….What Gives?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• China’s Government Is Targeting ‘Sissy’ Men, with Devastating Consequences
  by Yves Smith 6:26 am

• The Era of Cheap Renewables Grinds To A Halt
  by Yves Smith 12:07 am

January 25, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/25/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• It’s Time to Expand the COVID-19 Exception to All American Health Care
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/25/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Citi’s Hurried Exit From Mexico Just Hit a $5 Billion Snag
  by Nick Corbishley 6:55 am

• How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Why Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Rapid At-Home Covid Tests
  by Yves Smith 1:31 am

January 24, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/24/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Bangladesh-Based Group Promotes Plans to Resettle Climate Refugees
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 1/24/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• John Helmer: Content Analysis of Secretary Blinken at Geneva Reveals Psychopathological Incapacity to Negotiate with Russia
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• Andrew Bacevich: America’s Very Long War
  by Yves Smith 1:52 am

January 23, 2022

• Nothing Fundamental Has Changed: Biden Administration Greenlights More Fossil Fuel Drilling Permits in 2021 for Public Lands and Waters than Did Trump in 2017
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 1/23/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Beavers Offer Lessons About Managing Water in a Changing Climate, Whether the Challenge Is Drought or Floods
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

January 22, 2022

• Links 1/22/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments
  by Yves Smith 4:19 am

• Book Review: Why Our Emotions Are So Powerful
  by Yves Smith 3:49 am

January 21, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/21/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labour Market Returns to Child Behaviour
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/21/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Opposition Rises to NHS Vaccine Mandate, As Justifications for Mandate Run Out of Logic
  by Nick Corbishley 6:55 am

• Macron Suggests EU-Russia Talks. Meltdown Among EU, US Apparatchiks Follows.
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• UN Report: The World’s Farms Stretched to ‘A Breaking Point’
  by Yves Smith 5:13 am

January 20, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/20/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• CORBEVAX, a New Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine, Could Be a Pandemic Game Changer Globally
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/20/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Appeals Court Revives Case Against McKinsey for Widespread Bankruptcy Court Fraud
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The World’s Food Systems Are in Crisis, and Big Agribusiness Is at Its Heart
  by Yves Smith 5:29 am

• Russell 2000 Drops Below Year Ago Level. Collapse of IPOs, SPACs, Housing “Tech” Stocks, ARKK, etc. Progresses
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

January 19, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/19/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Remember That the Tories Are Only Getting Rid of Johnson To Make Things Worse
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/19/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Rorschach Test: Revealing Western Press Reactions to Xi Jinping Speech at Davos
  by Yves Smith 6:34 am

• 5 Things You Should Know About ‘Free’ At-Home Covid Tests
  by Yves Smith 6:26 am

• Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

January 18, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/18/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate: In Defense of National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/18/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• As Citi Prepares to Leave Mexico, the Hunt Is On for Its Assets
  by Nick Corbishley 6:50 am

• Airlines Threaten to Ground Many Passenger and Cargo Flights Over Cell Operators’ Refusal to Change 5G Plans
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

• Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
  by Yves Smith 12:37 am

January 17, 2022

• Latest Biden Covid Speech Sinks Without a Trace
  by Lambert Strether 1:58 pm

• Links 1/17/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Business Even Scummier than Many Imagined
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

• Biden Urged to Fire Covid Response Chief Jeff Zients Over ‘Damning’ Failures
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Eurasia’s Ring of Fire
  by Yves Smith 12:13 am

January 16, 2022

• An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
  by Lambert Strether 1:58 pm

• Links 1/16/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• With Billions in Fines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ranks Are ‘Packed With Rogues’
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

January 15, 2022

• Links 1/15/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Central Asian Alphabet Issue
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• How ‘Queer Eye’ Upholds Liberal Economic Fantasies
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

January 14, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/14/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses, Upholds for Most Health Workers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 1/14/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wrong Way CalPERS: Dumping $6 Billion of Private Equity After Struggling to Put Money to Work and Then Increasing Target
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Is Geneva 2022 Munich 1938 Without Chamberlain’s Piece Of Paper? How To Read the US Paper to Russia For Peace For Our Time
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Our Rolling Civil War
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

January 13, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/13/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Hong Kong Study: Tumble Clothes Dryers Generate Air Pollution from Microfibers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 1/13/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Africa Faces an Uphill Battle Against Western Emissions to Combat Climate Change
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Biden Under Fire for Resisting Calls to Distribute N95 Masks to All
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

January 12, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/12/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Federal Judge Denies Facebook’s Motion to Dismiss, Allowing FTC Antitrust Lawsuit to Proceed and Discovery to Commence
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Omicron Surge Empties Supermarket Shelves: Food Supply Shortages Are Here to Stay
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 1/12/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Novak Djokovic: The Legal Problem of Having One Rule for Some, Another for Everyone Else
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:54 am

• 20 Years and 4 Presidents Later and Gitmo Still Not Closed
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:53 am

• More Covid Delusion: Thermography for Health Endangers Patient Health via Eschewing Masks in Favor of Ozone
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

January 11, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/11/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• U.S. Interior Department Moves to Block Some Oil and Gas Leasing on Alaska’s North Slope
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 1/11/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Remittances Soar to Record High in Latin America, Providing a Lifeline for Desperate Economies
  by Nick Corbishley 6:47 am

• Calls for Paid Leave Grow as Workers Face ‘Vicious Cycle’: Their Jobs or Covid Safety
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Warmest U.S. December in History Caps a Stormy, Mostly-Sizzling Year
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:25 am

January 10, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Fashion Act: New York Lawmakers Take Aim at the Climate Impact of Fashion Company Supply Chains
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 1/10/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: What is Causing So Much Inflation?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• A Movement to Organize Against the Systemic Corruption of Congress
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

• The Bitcoin Challenge: How to Tame a Digital Predator
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

January 9, 2022

• Massachusetts Mask Debacle: State Fails its Elementary and Secondary School Teachers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 1/9/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Charity Shops: Why They Beat the Rest of the High Street as a Retail Experience
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

January 8, 2022

• Links 1/8/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
  by Yves Smith 4:54 am

• Classicalism and Revolution
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

January 7, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/7/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Hold That Anti-Fogging Spray: Duke University Researchers Find Forever Chemicals in Commonly Used Eyeglass Products
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/7/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• “They Really Are Trying to Kill Us”
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
  by Yves Smith 4:48 am

January 6, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/6/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Strong Earthquakes Spell Trouble For America’s Oil Heartland
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/6/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Fed Sets Out to Kill the Economy to Save It
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• Lawrence Wilkerson: Is Biden Risking War by Pushing Taiwan Independence?
  by Yves Smith 4:59 am

• Our Ancestors Worked Less and Had Better Lives. What Are We Doing Wrong?
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

January 5, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/5/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Germs in the Family: The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 1/5/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• More Omicron: Diabetics Appear Even More Vulnerable as Diabetic Ketoacidosis Strikes
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Covid Crisis Hits New York City Schools
  by Yves Smith 5:20 am

• Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
  by Yves Smith 4:17 am

January 4, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/4/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 1/4/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Some Quick Thoughts About the Conviction of Elizabeth Holmes on Four Counts of Fraud
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Mexico City Grapples With Acute Water Shortages, As “Day Zero” Approaches
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Calling Trump ‘Just a Warm-Up Act,’ Professor Warns of Democratic Collapse in US
  by Yves Smith 5:58 am

• Most People Want an Active Government, Working on Their Side. It Is Time Those Seeking Power Took Note.
  by Yves Smith 4:54 am

January 3, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/3/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yes, Maggie, There Is Such a Thing as “Society”
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Links 1/3/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Book Review: Coming to Grips With the Plastic Crisis
  by Lambert Strether 6:52 am

• Life Insurer: Deaths Among Working Age Americans Up 40% Under Covid
  by Yves Smith 4:59 am

• US Airlines, FAA, Mayo Pete Fighting Rearguard Action to Delay 5G Rollout Over Flight Safety Concerns; Carriers Offer Modest Concession
  by Yves Smith 3:44 am

January 2, 2022

• In Memoriam Betty White
  by Lambert Strether 1:58 pm

• Announcing Monthly Newsletter Plus Further Discussion of Reader Suggestions
  by Yves Smith 10:39 am

• Links 1/2/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• 2021: Year in Review for Climate Change Wins and Losses
  by Lambert Strether 6:12 am

January 1, 2022

• Links 1/1/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Dare I Disagree With David Ignatius?
  by Yves Smith 5:29 am

• During a COVID-19 Surge, ‘Crisis Standards of Care’ Involve Excruciating Choices and Impossible Ethical Decisions for Hospital Staff
  by Yves Smith 5:14 am