Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.
Monday, December 15, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/15/2021
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First UK Inquiry Into Greensill Scandal Calls for Extension to Lobbying Ban for Former Ministers and Civil Servants
The inquiry also recommends greater transparency and accountability from the government. Unfortunately, the trend is in the opposite direction.
Matt Stoller: A Society Designed to Incentivize Criminal Behavior at the Highest Level
Lambert Strether: Invigorating and insightful discussion (though I’d slip the mutual self-congratulation with the interviewer at the very end). Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, talks about the many ways in which the US economic system has become […]
Returning to the Office Will be Hard
New evidence from a survey of 2,500 employees in the UK shows a preference in favour of home working 2-3 days a week.
Private Inequity: NYT Examines How the Private Equity Industry Avoids Taxes
Comprehensive NYT story examines how the private equity industry games the tax system, while the hapless IRS stands on the sidelines.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2021
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Shale Oil Fraud Case Reveals Executives Ignore Their Own Engineers and Mislead Investors
Emerging shale oil fraud cases: employees warn management that they’re misleading investors but rather than changing course the employees were ignored or fired.
Sharks: The Ultimate Keystone Species?
Sharks, in a zeitgeist of top predator-worship and science triumphalism.
Book Review: America’s Long Struggle to Tame Its Greatest Rivers
Rivers are live entities. Alter its flow, and a river will respond — though it might take humans time to notice.
Starbucks Launches Reusable Cup Program
Starbucks rolls out a reusable cups initiative in some markets and restarts programs suspended during the pandemic- much more is needed.
What Bagehot Means for 21st Century Central Bankers
Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?
