Sunday, October 13, 2024

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/14/2023

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The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.

Conor Gallagher: Naked Capitalism – Journalism, the Good Old Fashioned Way

How modern journalism has gone into decline, and why Naked Capitalism stands apart. Your funding assures its independence.

Links 9/14/2023

The Walls Are Closing In on Joe Biden

Biden 2024 is now officially in trouble.

As More Patients E-mail Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees (and Using AI for Responses)

Will doctors feeling the need to bill for e-mail service wind up having perverse side effects?

Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition

Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/13/2023

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Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”

Links 9/13/2023

DJG, Reality Czar: Help Naked Capitalism Keep Spoiling You

Naked Capitalism does a lot for all of us. So time to donate to keep this good thing going.

On Not Thinking Like a Liberal in the 21st Century

“Liberalism is the solution to nothing we face in this changing world that Liberalism hath wrought.”

The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing

Looking at the logic of the Russian deal with North Korea.

The South China Sea’s Resource Wars

Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2023

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