Saturday, November 15, 2025

Spain’s Labor Office Hit by Massive Ransomware Attack As Unemployment Hits Four-Year High

The victims of this latest ransomware attack are among the most vulnerable in society — those who have lost their jobs or whose jobs have been furloughed.  

New York City Lost a Record 631,000 Jobs to the Pandemic in 2020. So What’s Next?

A look at the raw numbers behind the pain of New York City’s biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Biden Stimulus Plan Shores Up Weakest Multi-Employer Pension Plans Rather than Taking on Private Equity Abuses

A Biden rescue of the sickest private pension plans goes largely under the radar.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/15/2021

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Indian Vaccine Manufacturers: U.S. Use of Wartime Export Controls Threatens World Vaccine Production

Will the U.S. relax export controls that threaten global vaccine production? What’s the next step for U.S. vacccine diplomacy?

Links 3/15/2021

‘Disturbing’: Rich Nations Vaccinating Person Per Second While Blocking Effort to Share Recipe With Poor Countries

Rich nations continue to block a propsed waiver of intellectual property rights to allow global sharing of vaccine tecnology and production.

New Zealand’s Feeble Attempt to Curb Sky-High Housing Prices

New Zealand, awfully late in the game, is trying to Do Something about insane housing prices.

Nomi Prins: To Build or Not to Build? The Infrastructure Question

For all sorts of bad reasons, American has a huge infrastructure spending backlog. But can we even do the job well?

For the Birds: Lights Out Philly

Bird Safe Philly announces voluntary initiative to switch off lights on skyscrapers to prevent migrating birds from crashing to their deaths.

Links 3/14/2021

Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal

Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology.

Links 3/13/2021

The Productivity of Working from Home: Evidence from Japan

A new study confirms others in concluding that productivity is lower when normally office-based employees work from home.

Brazil’s Catastrophic Management of COVID-19 Threatens the Entire World

Bolosonaro is responsible for Brasil’s botched Covid response. But the consequences extent far beyond the country’s borders.