Are the effects of Long Covid on the workforrce “material”? Plus the labor market, labor force participation, “the economy,” etc.
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market)
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Risk and risk management
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 53 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/15/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 52 Comments »
Links 4/15/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 167 Comments »
How Ultranationalist Zionists Seek the Destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque to Produce the End Times
On the plans to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque, one of the most sacred site in Islam, and the conflagration it would generate.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:51 am | 68 Comments »
Starbucks Seeks Supreme Court Protection From Being Ordered to Rehire Baristas Who Say They Were Fired for Union-Promoting Activities
The conservative Supremes appear set to side with Starbucks in an upcoming case that will hurt union organizing across the country.
Topics: Legal, Regulations and regulators, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 5 Comments »
Michael Hudson: The Truth about the Destruction of the Palestinians
What Michael Hudson learned about Palestinians from the Mossad 50 years ago: “The aim all along has been to kill them.”
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:19 am | 108 Comments »
Links 4/14/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 168 Comments »
Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three?
Putin has said Ukraine conflict is existential threat to Russia, but there are signs the Western capitalist class is dealing with their own existential crises. Will their greed get us all killed?
Topics: China, Commodities, Corporate governance, Doomsday scenarios, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Private equity, Russia, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 96 Comments »
The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, India, Politics, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 28 Comments »
Criminalizing the Unhoused Is Inherently Cruel
Fining, arresting, and jailing people for a lack of housing is never the solution—and compounds existing housing inequities.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Real estate, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:41 am | 68 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: My Berlin Speech on Palestine That German Police Entered the Venue to Ban
Germany sends the cops to shut down a conference on Palestine on trumped-up grounds. What next?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:04 am | 43 Comments »
Links 4/13/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 291 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics and pandemics, Shananhan at the border, FDR’s “fireside chats,” H5N1 testing, the warrantless surveillance zombie staggers on ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 102 Comments »
Young People Finally Starting to Recognize the Super Rich and Not Oldsters Are the Problem
As the rich become both richer and better bunkered, the young are finally realizing that wealth disparity is a big part of what ails them.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:40 am | 102 Comments »
Links 4/12/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 132 Comments »