By Lambert Strether of Corrente. My old iPad with the cracked screen finally failed today. I had kept on using it, and not the new one I bought after the first crack appeared, because I never updated the credit credit card number on it, and after a bank takeover, that card is no longer valid, […]
Monday, July 14, 2025
The End Of The Embargo Against Qatar
The rollback of the Qatar embargo is a small positive development as Team Trump is exiting.
Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021
Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.
You Don’t Want to Imagine an Ocean Without Coral Reefs—But You Might Have To
The latest reading on the slow-motions deaths of coral reefs.
2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/05/2021
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The ‘Gateway Drug to Corruption and Overspending’ Returns to Congress. Are Earmarks Really That Bad?
Democrats go for more better pork, aka earmarks.
Workers’ Wages: The Next Frontier in the Financialization of Just About Everything
As the virus crisis bites deeper and deeper into workers’ wages and household finances, big money is pouring into workplace finance initiatives.
Schaudenfreude Alert: Bezos-Buffet-Dimon Health Care Industry Disruptor Haven Makes Faceplant, Announces Closure
Even three rich smart guys couldn’t get a half baked idea like Haven off the ground.
Five Days Without Cops: Could Brooklyn Policing Experiment be a ‘Model for the Future’?
A promising “defund the police” pilot featured cooperation between cops and community members.
Google Rigged Its Own Advertising Auction In Favor of Facebook for a Price (and What That Means for the So-Called Free Market)
Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/04/2021
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Disruption of Seaborne Trade in South East Asia: A Quantitative Analysis
Restrictions to shipping due to military sanctions could have large negative effects on economic welfare for countries all over the world, including oil exporters such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia
