Sunday, November 30, 2025

Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied

Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.

Medicare Blues

Medicare is not looking good.

Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories

Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/8/2020

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CalPERS Employees Beware: Don’t Fill Out Non-Confidential Survey Jiggered to Falsely Boost Executive Bonuses

Memo to CalPERS employees: If you see staff or vendors profiteering, call a lawyer. You could win a financial award and stop the abuse.

Links 12/8/2020

Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?

Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.

Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets

How Google’s abuses allow the search giant to dominate online advertising, and what can be done about it.

Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities

The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.

R.I.P The University, b. 1088, d. 2020, of Covid

Opportunistic university administrators seize the opportunity presented by Covid to gut academic freedom and turn faculty into employees

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/7/2020

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Demand for COVID Vaccines Expected to Get Heated — And Fast

Experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes toward vaccines to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand.

Links 12/7/2020

Judge Slams Apollo for Making Investors Pay for Partner’s Bogus Personal Expenses; Clueless SEC Missed the Abuse, Maybe Because Paul Weiss Misled Them

A federal judge blasts Apollo for making bogus charges to its investors and by implication, law firm Paul Weiss, for whitewashing the abuse.

Business and Related Restrictions Appear to Curb COVID-19 Fatality Growth, But Some Do Not

An examination of particularly Covid-containment strategies in terms of cost versus effectiveness.