A Biden rescue of the sickest private pension plans goes largely under the radar.
Friday, November 21, 2025
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?
‘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.
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.
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.
By Declaring March 11 “Our” Covid Anniversary, the Press Erases Covid’s Origin Story in the U.S.
The hive mind hums happily.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/12/2021
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