“We want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment.
Friday, December 19, 2025
Quaking Aspen: The Keystone Species that Clones Itself
The world’s oldest and heaviest living being is an aspen clone!
In Missouri and Other States, Flawed Data Makes It Hard to Track Vaccine Equity
Just as an uneven approach to containing the coronavirus led to a greater toll for Black and Latino communities, the inconsistent data guiding vaccination efforts may be leaving the same groups out on vaccines
Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Rethinking Unemployment: From Adam Smith to Marx “Reserve Army of the Unemployed” to the Neoliberal War on Full Employment
Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
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.
