Monthly Archives: August 2022

August 31, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/31/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/31/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Alzheimer’s Disease and Modern Biomedical Research: A Cautionary Tale in Several Parts
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• ‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• How Unions Are Combating Domestic Violence
  by Yves Smith 1:44 am

August 30, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/30/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How France Underdevelops Africa
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/30/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Tipping Legions of Small Businesses Over the Edge
  by Nick Corbishley 6:46 am

• We Could Massively Reduce the Price of Energy in the UK – By Changing the Way We Regulate Energy Prices
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• Saudi Arabia New Output Cuts Threat Is Another Blow To Washington
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

August 29, 2022

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Steele
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/29/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 8/29/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Will Europe Go Down to Defeat Before Ukraine?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• If You Thought This Summer’s Heat Waves Were Bad, a New Study Has Some Disturbing News About Dangerous Heat
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• Socially Blindsided: Social Foundations of Pandemic Protection
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

August 28, 2022

• Early Alert for an Early Fundraiser!
  by Yves Smith 8:07 pm

• The Reveal from Drought’s Receding Waters: Not Just the Bodies in Lake Mead
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• Links 8/28/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:59 am

• Wastewater Surveillance Has Become a Critical Covid Tracking Tool, but Funding Is Inconsistent
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

August 27, 2022

• Links 8/27/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

• Joe Biden Could Have Gone a Lot Further on Student Loans
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

August 26, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/26/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Climate Change Spurs Megadroughts
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/26/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Mexican Drug Cartel Imposes Price Controls on Corn Tortillas, As Inflation Surges to 21-Year High
  by Nick Corbishley 6:34 am

• Quiet Quitting: White Collar Workers No Longer in the Mood to Give More at Work Than They Are Paid For
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• The Bank of England Increasing Interest Rates to 4% – As Markets Expect – Could Be Enough To Bring the Whole Economy Down
  by Yves Smith 12:59 am

August 25, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/25/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Thanks to Manchin, IRA’s Methane Fee on Big Oil Is Riddled With Massive Holes
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/25/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Ilargi: EU – Controlled Demolition
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Record Number of US Households Behind on Energy Bills; Brace for a Cold Winter
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

• Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”
  by Yves Smith 3:58 am

August 24, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/24/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Turkey Positions Itself as the Middleman in “East-West” Conflict
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• A New US Data Privacy Bill Aims To Give You More Control Over Information Collected About You – and Make Businesses Change How They Handle Data
  by Yves Smith 9:53 am

• Links 8/24/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Biden’s Gimmie to the Higher Educational Complex and Well-Off, Dem Leaning Voters: The $10,000 Student Loan Writeoff
  by Yves Smith 6:49 am

• Iran And Russia Move To Create A Global Natural Gas Cartel
  by Yves Smith 5:41 am

August 23, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Most Bleak Federal Report Yet on High-Tide/Sunny-Day Tide Floods
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/23/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Are “Payment Strikes” About to Become a Regular Feature of the Economic Landscape?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• The Hope of What Was Once Called a Decent Living Has Departed for the Average Household
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

• China as a Developmental State: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
  by Yves Smith 3:18 am

August 22, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/22/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Australian Labor Party Embraces the Authoritarianism of a Political System in Crisis
  by John McGregor 10:55 am

• Links 8/22/2022
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Some Rural Hospitals Are in Such Bad Shape, Local Governments Are Practically Giving Them Away
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Republicans Are Being Mean to the IRS, Not That the Democrats Are Helping
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Europe’s Gas Price Is Now Equivalent To $410 Per Barrel Of Oil
  by Yves Smith 2:49 am

August 21, 2022

• National Cyber Defenses Mean Businesses Can Keep Making Money From Public Services
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Ukraine Could Abandon Key Labour Principle as Part of EU Drive
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Links 8/21/2022
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

August 20, 2022

• Links 8/20/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Companies Are Paying Inflation Busting Dividends at Cost to the Rest of the Economy, Including Their Employees
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers
  by Yves Smith 5:51 am

August 19, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/19/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Will the Inflation Reduction Act Actually Reduce Inflation? How Will the Corporate Minimum Tax work? An Economist Has Answers
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/19/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Scientific Research and the Unforeseen World: Why Basic Research is Essential
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Latin America Is Back on the Grand Chessboard, As Race for Resources and Strategic Influence Intensifies in New Cold War
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• 10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial
  by Yves Smith 4:47 am

August 18, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/18/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Economists Fear Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Bent on ‘Unleashing Mass Unemployment’
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/18/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
  by Yves Smith 2:27 am

August 17, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/17/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Germany to Keep Three Nuclear Plants Going Past Old Shut-Down Date to Alleviate Energy Crunch
  by Yves Smith 4:42 am

• Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
  by Yves Smith 3:45 am

• Does Nature Have Rights? Victorian Polymath John Ruskin Thought So
  by Yves Smith 3:12 am

August 16, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Stagflation: From Tragedy to Farce
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/16/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is Cold, Hard Cash Making a Comeback?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• 80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

• “Housing Recession”: NAHB. Homebuilders Cut Prices as Traffic of Prospective New-House Buyers Plunges, Cancellations Spike
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

August 15, 2022

• CDC Rigs Its Own Monkeypox Case Reports by Not Including Questions on Airborne Transmission
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 8/15/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• More US Eyepoking of China with New Congresscritter Visit to Taiwan; What Will China Do Next?
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
  by Yves Smith 6:18 am

• Researchers Ask: Does Enforcing Civility Stifle Online Debate in Social Media?
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

August 14, 2022

• A Marine’s Assessment of Russia’s Military “Operation” in Ukraine (a “Profound Appreciation of All Three Realms in Which Wars Are Waged”)
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 pm

• Links 8/14/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Striking a Bargain: Narrative Identification of Wage Bargaining Shocks
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

August 13, 2022

• Links 8/13/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Climate Bill Passes: It Could Short-Circuit EV Tax Credits, Making Qualifying for Them Nearly Impossible
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming
  by Yves Smith 6:38 am

August 12, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/12/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Dictatorship Never Again’: Massive Pro-Democracy Protests Sweep Brazil
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/12/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Is Germany About to Take A Leaf Out of China’s COVID-19 Digital Playbook?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• An Unjustified Fear of Nuclear Energy Is Holding the Industry Back
  by Yves Smith 4:11 am

• Energy Workers to Stage More Protests as Companies Raise Bills but Not Pay
  by Yves Smith 12:50 am

August 11, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/11/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Oakland-Based Cooperative Builds Community Through Collective Property Ownership
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/11/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Is the US Underestimating China’s Space and Counterspace Capabilities?
  by Yves Smith 6:27 am

• The IRA Drug Price ‘Victory’
  by Yves Smith 5:52 am

• Chip Shortages And Inflation Are Plaguing The Auto Industry
  by Yves Smith 3:09 am

August 10, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Italy’s Upcoming Election and Its Ongoing Neoliberal Project
  by Conor Gallagher 12:45 pm

• Links 8/10/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• China And Saudi Arabia Intensify Energy Cooperation With Critical Deal
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

• Third Time May Not Be Charm for Patel as Voters Reluctant to Embrace Generational Change
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives
  by Yves Smith 4:25 am

August 9, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• April Fool’s Inflation Medicine Threatens Progress
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/9/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Costa Rica’s New Government Overturns Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate, Launches Investigation Into Pfizer Contract
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Wrong Way CalPERS Increased Private Equity Allocation by Over 50% as Investors Are Dumping Holdings
  by Yves Smith 6:29 am

• America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

August 8, 2022

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

• The Future of Copper and the Future of Bougainville
  by John McGregor 11:55 am

• Links 8/8/2022
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Memo to China: You Look Silly When You Threaten to Dump Treasuries
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Dodgy Demand Data? The Oil Price Collapse Conspiracy
  by John McGregor 6:50 am

• The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change
  by Yves Smith 3:47 am

August 7, 2022

• Links 8/7/2022
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Australia’s Grand Plans to Export Solar – A Lesson from the ‘Gas Crisis’
  by John McGregor 6:54 am

• The Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just the Sacklers’ Fault – and Making Purdue Pharma Pay Isn’t Enough on Its Own to Fix the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Deeper Problems
  by John McGregor 6:53 am

August 6, 2022

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

• Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Recession Mongers Shocked & Horrified by This Surge in Employment
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

August 5, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/5/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• PredictIt: The Closing of a Prediction Market
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/5/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Endgame Taiwan? US Plans Further China Eyepoking with Planned Military Transit of the Taiwan Strait
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Dystopian Dream of Global Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Hits Another Snag: The Japanese People’s Love of Cash
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-One: Uber’s Legitimate Cumulative Losses Top $32 Billion; P&L Improvements Driven by Much Higher Fares and Multi-Billion Dollar Transfers From Drivers to Shareholders
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

August 4, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/4/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Inside the Democrats’ Climate Deal with the Devil
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/4/2022
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Italian Technocrats Allow the Right to Weaponize Democracy
  by John McGregor 6:41 am

• The Dying American Southwest
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

• German Chancellor: Germany Could Keep Nuclear Power Plants Operating After All
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am

August 3, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Story Behind ‘Star Trek’ Actress Nichelle Nichols’ Iconic Interracial Kiss
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/3/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Serotonin and the Unsubstantiated Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Disorders
  by Yves Smith 5:31 am

• Think the Financial Crisis Is Over? Mortgage Servicers Still Abusing Borrowers For 10+ Years, Thanks to Lax Fannie/Freddie Oversight
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Why It’s Essential for Congress to Reauthorize Trade Adjustment Assistance
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

August 2, 2022

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

• Truss and Sunak’s Reheated Thatcherism Is the Last Thing the UK Needs
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/2/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Brian Berletic of New Atlas, Alexander Mercouris of The Duran, and Yves Speak at 9 AM Eastern with Gonzalo Lira Hosting on China and Other Hot Topics
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Is Mexico’s AMLO Willing to Walk Away from USMCA?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
  by Yves Smith 3:17 am

August 1, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Air Travel and Covid in the Biden “Let ‘Er Rip” Era: A Personal Risk Assessment
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Links 8/1/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• Murky World of Carbon Offsets Faces Greater Scrutiny
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong
  by Yves Smith 3:43 am