a line has been drawn around political process, cameras have been pointed at it, and we’ve been taught that it’s something for us to watch from afar, a hobby to buy into, or not.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Why Sending $1,000 Checks to Everyone Won’t Solve the Coronavirus Crisis (Updated)
Why the Republicans’ planned coronavirus bazooka isn’t big enough.
Debt and Financial Crises: Will History Repeat Itself?
Unhappy families may all be different, but financial crises are pretty much the same, rooted in debt overhangs, and one has been brewing.
Triggering a Global Financial Crisis: Covid-19 as the Last Straw
An ambitious deleveraging plan as a Covid-19 response.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates coming fast now, so I […]
Closing Polling Places Is the 21st Century’s Version of a Poll Tax
Voter disenfranchisement via shuttering polling sites.
Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
Germany’s long-standing practice of muscling the European Union to serve its own ends now risks dissolution and a banking system crisis.
Brexit: The ‘Australian Option’?
Boris Johnson fancies that the UK’s future lies with the US. Good luck with that.
Why Sanctions Against Iran and Venezuela During a Pandemic Are Cruel
A moral and practical case against continuing economic sanctions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Social Insurance in a Time of Pandemic: A Proposal for the Government to Act as Buyer of Last Resort
It’s not hard operationally for the government to counter economic fallout from the pandemic. The hard part is ideological baggage.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/16/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: National poll, voting during #COVID-19, exit polls vs. computer calculated results, manufacturing, housing, China sends #COVID-19 materiel, retail food, esports, copper, testing the Utah Jazz, 1619 Project controversy, sabotaging techniques in business, Ecstasy, Wodehouse
How Lifesaving Organs For Transplant Go Missing In Transit
Scores of organs — mostly kidneys — are trashed each year and many more become critically delayed while being shipped on commercial airliners, a new investigation finds.
