February confirms: V-shaped jobs recovery petered out in October about two-thirds into it.
Monday, October 20, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/5/2021
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Economists’ Rx: “Sick? Stay Home!”
Economists endorse sick day mandates. Pass the word.
Covid Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways
The more experts look at Covid, the more they seem to come up with new questions rather than answers.
Covid Baby Bust Has Governments Rattled
A falloff in baby production has capitalists very worried.
The U.S. Grid Isn’t Ready For A Major Shift To Renewables
The Texas power outages exposed serious shortcomings with the structure and operation of the US electrical grid.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2021
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GOP Voting Rights Act Position Falls Apart in SCOTUS Arguments
The GOP scored an own goal in its Supreme Court arguments on a closely-watched Arizona voting rights case.
Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems
Why the Biden stimulus program is fundamentally wrongheaded.
Facebook and Google vs the Free Press
The effort to contain Google and Facebook were only in the skirmish stage until Australia and Maryland upped the ante with their tax powers.
RIP Gold. Killed by Bitcoin
Inflationistas have abandoned gold and moved on to a new fetish.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/3/2021
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How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times
The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
