Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Monday, December 8, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/4/2021
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Ranked Choice and Most-Least Voting
Ranked choice voting is getting a following in America. But how does it work in practice compared to similar-seeming systems like most-least?
Bezzle Watch: “1099s and Tenderness” – Papa Health Has Wacky Ideas About Elder Care
Papa Health makes no sense as a business, not that that’s a barrier to a few rounds of fundraising.
Decisions Finally Coming in Long-Running Battle with Hedge Fund Titans in Kentucky Pension Case, Mayberry v. KKR
Mayberry v. KKR, centering on the alleged abuse of the clueless Kentucky Retirement Systems by Wall Street titans, may finally restart.
How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/3/2021
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Driver’s License Suspensions for Failure to Pay Fines Inflict Particular Harm on Black Drivers
Yet another way that biased policing does financial harm to blacks and people of color.
CalPERS Desperate Response to Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Discussions and Other Abuses Seeks to Drag Case Out as Long As Possible
CalPERS’ intelligence-insulting answer to former board member Jelincic’s transparency lawsuit says that CalPERS is just dragging things out.
How Is Your Economy?
One of our periodic reader queries as to what they make of the state of the economy based on local sightings.
Why Colombia Has Erupted in Protest
The pandemic exacerbated intolerable poverty and economic distress in Colombia. As repression mounts, is there any way out?
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/2/2021
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Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
