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Is the Democratic Party redeemable?

Globalization , globalizers, and COVID-19.

Today’s Water Cooler: Coronavirus stats, no polls, Cuomo, Sanders, unemployment statstics, GDP, gold, influencers, Walmart, the Montreal Protocol, #COVID19 needs a Manhattan Project, #COVID19 and Canadian single payer, Thomas Piketty, corporate logos re-imagined with social distance

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A permaculture gardening book for those isolated and seeking a project, or just a good read.

Delaying emergency measures in emerging and developing economies will lead to unimaginable health and social impacts which will come back to haunt us for decades. The G20 must act now.

As the world struggles with the pandemic, Boeing should be seen as the vector for a parallel epidemic. It’s Patient Zero in an epidemic of corporate failure. As we change the way we live our lives, corporations like Boeing should change the way they are run. Corporate mismanagement made this crisis worse and, if it doesn’t change, will make the recovery more difficult.

Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 chart, new national polls, Biden, Cuomo, Sanders, Trump, tricking, retail, #COVID19 and employment, gardening, wildfires, the novel Coronoavirus itself, vitamin C, face masks, disinformation, Mesopotamian board games, Sara Nelson, knitting, hacking

Another sign that America has gone banana republic: Brady Bonds, used in the Latin American debt crisis, would be suitable medicine for our corporate debt hangover.

Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on waste management policies and led many U.S. municipalities to suspend or modify their recycling programs..

The U.S. shale oil industry had considerable problems before Saudi Arabia and Russia launched their oil price war. What comes next?

Granting “orphan” drug status to Gilead Sciences for remdesivir, its potential coronavirus treatment, is a massive boon to the company.

Today’s Water Cooler: Stimulus, Biden as idea, “back to work in two weeks” say elites, manufacturing, container shipping, grocery supply chain, Ford and ventilators, Roubini on depression, gardening, Antarctica, rich behaving badly, chloroquine, #COVID19 and antibiotic resistance