More bad news about private equity returns.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Obama’s Promised Land: Obama Wept (Two Episodes from Campaign 2008)
Obama on the trail in 2008….
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t
Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.
Can’t Do America: Kick the Can Approach to Public Pension Fund Crisis, Even Though Canada Cleaned Up Its Mess
Why the US is certain to ignore the Canadian roadmap out of its public pension fund mess….and it’s not just because exceptionalism.
The Scarring Effect of COVID-19: Youth Unemployment in Europe
Youth unemployment spiked in the EU after the financial crisis. Covid is set to do even more damage.
Obama’s Promised Land: Come for the Droning, Stay for the Erasures
Cracking open Obama third autobiography
When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain
In the U.S., companies can use eminent domain to take private land for a project that has some public benefit, such as a school, a highway, or a hospital. Under the Natural Gas Act, FERC gets to make that determination when it concerns a natural gas pipeline, and the commission weighs pros and cons of the project when deciding.
Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation
How did Martin Luther’s message spread so quickly?
