Monthly Archives: February 2022

February 28, 2022

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

• New CDC Covid Guidance Caves to Great Barrington, Is Not Science-Based, Finagles the Metrics, and Destroys Masking as a Public Health Measure (Just in Time for the SOTU)
  by Lambert Strether 1:58 pm

• Links 2/28/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century: The MIC, BARE and OGAM Conquer NATO
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• A Very Preliminary Look at the Partial Suspension of Russia’s Access to SWIFT
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Global Financial Risk Factors and Sovereign Risk
  by Lambert Strether 4:10 am

February 27, 2022

• Three Cheers for the Makers of Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes!
  by Lambert Strether 1:58 pm

• Links 2/27/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Book Review: A Sweeping — and Personal — History of Addiction and Recovery
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

February 26, 2022

• Links 2/26/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Plan to Fix Postal Service Shifts New Retirees to Medicare — Along With Billions in Costs
  by Yves Smith 5:17 am

• There’s No Sugarcoating Hershey’s Abuse of Workers and Union-Busting Tactics
  by Yves Smith 5:06 am

February 25, 2022

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

• Ukraine Update: Back of the Envelope Calculations, Digital Evidence, Maps, Scenarios
  by Lambert Strether 1:00 pm

• Links 2/25/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Europe’s Sustainable Taxonomy Is a Sideshow
  by Lambert Strether 6:54 am

• Spanish Pensioners Win Rare Victory Against Banks’ War on Cash
  by Nick Corbishley 6:47 am

• The Private Equity Industry in the New Interest Rate Environment
  by Yves Smith 4:23 am

February 24, 2022

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

• “Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer”
  by Yves Smith 10:13 am

• Is 4% the “Magic Number” for Mortgage Rates to Prick the Housing Market (and Stocks)?
  by Yves Smith 10:05 am

• Links 2/24/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Russia Moves Troops into Donbass [Updated]
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• What the Latest Science Says About Antarctica and Sea-Level Rise
  by Yves Smith 5:52 am

February 23, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/23/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Financialization at Heart of Economic Malaise
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/23/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Some Additional Comments on Russia’s Ukraine Surprise
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Wall Street Journal Mystified By Public’s Sour Mood Despite “Booming” Economy
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• 5 Commodities That Could Explode As The Ukraine Crisis Escalates
  by Yves Smith 4:21 am

February 22, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/22/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Does Limited US Shale Spending Guarantee Higher Energy Prices?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Will Fresh US-EU Sanctions Hurt the EU More Than Russia?
  by Nick Corbishley 7:05 am

• Links 2/22/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• “What Would Russian Recognition of Separatist Territories in Ukraine Mean?”
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• Why Is New York’s Bail Reform So Controversial?
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

February 21, 2022

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

• Shareholder Activism: Icahn Targets McDonald’s Pig Pens
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 2/21/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Banning the Promotion of Soft Drinks Could be More Effective Than a Sugar Tax
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:54 am

• “Just Scandalous”: CDC Withholding Most of the Covid Data It Gathers. What Is It Trying to Hide?
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

• Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act: Power Without Responsibility?
  by Yves Smith 1:21 am

February 20, 2022

• War on Cash: Banks Crack Down on Independent ATMs
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/20/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• EU Chief Defends Vaccine Patents as ‘Precious’ as South Africa Demands Waiver
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:54 am

February 19, 2022

• Links 2/19/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Russian Black Box Defence Against American Booby Trap Offence
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

• California Bill Would Allow Citizens to Enforce Assault Weapon Ban
  by Yves Smith 5:11 am

February 18, 2022

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

• How Corporations Use Public School Workforce ‘Pipelines’ to Harvest Students’ Data and Train Narrowly Skilled, Exploitable Staff
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/18/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Mexico Tries and Fails to Get Michoacan’s “Green Gold” (Avocados) Back on the Market [Updated]
  by Nick Corbishley 6:51 am

• New Data: Omicron BA.2 More Contagious and Severe than BA.1, Yet Officials Committed to Relaxing Protections
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

• What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

February 17, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/17/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Appeal in Sarah Palin’s Libel Loss Could Set up Supreme Court Test of Decades-Old Media Freedom Rule
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/17/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Trudeau’s Money Heist: Emergencies Act Allows Seizure of Bank Accounts, Securities, Crypto of Those Suspected of “Links” to Convoy Members w/o Court Order
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• U.S. Shale Production Hindered By Sand Supply Crunch
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• How Young Workers Are Being Exploited in the COVID-19 Economy
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

February 16, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/16/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR and Shale Greenwashing
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/16/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• SEC Investigating Possible Block Trading Abuses at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Big Players
  by Yves Smith 5:07 am

• New Study Explains How Coronavirus Stays Airborne Longer Than Previously Thought
  by Yves Smith 2:32 am

• This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help.
  by Yves Smith 12:02 am

February 15, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/15/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/15/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Spain and UK Give a Masterclass on Why Both Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Should Fear Vaccine Passports
  by Nick Corbishley 6:51 am

• More Home Surveillance Coming Your Way, Courtesy Bosch and the Internet of Things
  by Yves Smith 6:43 am

• Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer
  by Yves Smith 4:21 am

February 14, 2022

• NYT Recognizes “That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think”
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:25 pm

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

• Links 2/14/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Valentine’s Day: The Pressures of Shopping for Romance
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Commodities Price Increases and Prospect of Shortages Feeding Inflation Fears
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

• On-Time Rent Payments Sag Amid Massive Spike in Rents
  by Yves Smith 5:02 am

February 13, 2022

• Arbitration Antics: Warren, Porter, Press Regulator to Explain Yet Another Way Wells Fargo Found to Game the System
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:25 pm

• Links 2/13/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

February 12, 2022

• Links 2/12/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Faster Internet Displaces Social Capital in the UK
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government Won’t Say.
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

February 11, 2022

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

• Update: Supreme Court to Weigh EPA Authority on Greenhouse Pollutants
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Resource Nationalism on Rise in Latin America, As Fever for “White Gold,” aka Lithium, Grips the World
  by Nick Corbishley 6:57 am

• Links 2/11/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Nine: Despite Massive Price Increases Uber Losses Top $31 Billion
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
  by Yves Smith 4:27 am

February 10, 2022

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

• Thoughts on the Canadian Trucker “Freedom Convoys”
  by Lambert Strether 1:50 pm

• Links 2/10/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Europe’s Nuclear Fusion Race Is Going Private
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• SEC Set to Lower Massive Boom on Private Equity Industry
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Revealed: New Insight into What Really Drives the Stock Market
  by Yves Smith 2:27 am

February 9, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/9/2022
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Ocean Summit Launches Today in France
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/9/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Resist Inflation Phobia Coup
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• Occupy the SEC to DoJ: Act on Congressional Mandate, Quit Rubber Stamping Bank Mergers
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

February 8, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/8/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/8/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Spain’s Second Largest Lender, BBVA, Escalates Its War on Cash in Mexico
  by Nick Corbishley 6:51 am

• Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
  by Yves Smith 6:18 am

• IMF Surcharges: A Lose-Lose Policy for Global Recovery
  by Yves Smith 3:49 am

February 7, 2022

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

• ‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/7/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• News Flash: CalPERS Invents Time Machine! Not News: CalPERS Again Lies in Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Meeting and Smears Former Board Member Margaret Brown as Diversion
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• Blinken’s Booby Traps – How The US Propaganda Paper Released In Madrid Proposes to Go to War With Russia While Claiming to Do The Opposite
  by Yves Smith 5:04 am

February 6, 2022

• Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 pm

• Links 2/6/2022
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

February 5, 2022

• Links 2/5/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How a Cooperative Run by the Formerly Incarcerated Is Reshaping Chicago’s Food Industry
  by Yves Smith 4:54 am

• Senators Have Re-Introduced the Highly Unpopular EARN IT Bill That Would Scan All Online Messages
  by Yves Smith 4:31 am

February 4, 2022

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

• Building a State One Step at a Time: Evidence from France
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/4/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Bank of England Warns of Record Slump in Standard of Living, As It Hikes Interest Rates for Second Time in Two Months
  by Nick Corbishley 6:53 am

• Why Young Workers Are Driving a Wave of Unionization
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Ending Drug Price Gouging: A Regulatory Framework for Pricing of Medicine Innovation
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

February 3, 2022

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

• What Does Climate Change Have to do with Snowstorms?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/3/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Could the U.S. Defend Ukraine?
  by Yves Smith 6:17 am

• What Happens If a Cryptocurrency Exchange Files for Bankruptcy?
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

• Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating
  by Yves Smith 4:39 am

February 2, 2022

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

• Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• Covid Sightings: Omicron Reinfections, Brain Effects, Shabby US Performance, Western Australia Border Controls
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• A Facet of Late-State Capitalist Failure: Operational Breakage
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
  by Yves Smith 5:58 am

February 1, 2022

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

• Sweet Smell of Success: Tales From the Garbage Heap Lost and Found
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Almost Half of Spain Is Now Vaccine Passport-Free (At Least for Domestic Uses)
  by Nick Corbishley 6:57 am

• Links 2/1/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am