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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Links 7/15/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 216 Comments »
Trump Admin Retracts Rule that Would Have Cancelled Visas for Foreign College Students Who Only Study Online
Trump backs down on plan too toss out foreign students who are forced to study on-line, as many universities circumscribe in-person classes,
Topics: China, Guest Post, India, Pandemic, Student loans
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 18 Comments »
US Corporations a Driving Force Behind ‘Unprecedented Wave’ of Global Land Privatization: Report
This Oakland Institute study documents how the neoliberal project proceeds, with US interests pushing to privatize land in the Global South.
Topics: Banana republic, Globalization, Guest Post, Hedge funds, Income disparity, Legal
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 4:25 am | 18 Comments »
Coronavirus Shows the Dangers of Letting Market Forces Govern Health and Social Care
The coronavirus crisis showcases the folly of letting the market determine health and social care: high time for governments to listen,
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 3:25 am | 9 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/14/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 171 Comments »
COVID-19 Mistakes to Avoid: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App
Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, India, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method, Surveillance state
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 11:55 am | 31 Comments »
Links 7/14/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
Save the Tiger, Shift to other Big Cats: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Rise in Zoonotic Diseases
Second UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Wildife Crime Report connects illegal wildlife trade to increase in zoonotic diseases.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 18 Comments »
Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in the Pandemic
Next showdown in Congress over CoVID-19 relief legislation: protecting workers or shielding employers from lawsuits.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 4:55 am | 17 Comments »
Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Pandemic, Privatization
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 3:55 am | 22 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2020
COVID in the US vs. the world, morbidity. Disney ~ Biden advertisement ~ Sanders on politics ~ Trump and his base ~ Democrat Senate haul ~ Democrat Milwaukee plans ~ General AI ~ Phishing equilibria ~ COVID PSAs ~ Festival of Airborne Transmission ~ Influencers ~ Ghislane Maxwell’s house ~ Genocide in flyover ~ Knitting ~ Shutters
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 168 Comments »
Food Security in the Age of COVID-19: The First Harvest of the Season’s Bounty
Improving the food security of family members who live in North Carolina. They’re starting to reap the harvest as the vegetables ripen.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 54 Comments »
Links 7/13/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 182 Comments »
Wolf Richter: The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Massacre: Bankruptcies, Defaulted Debts, Worthless Shares, Collapsed Prices of Oil & Gas
The day of reckoning has arrived in oil and gas. A record number of companies have filed for bankruptcy. with the epicenter in Texas.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:25 am | 15 Comments »
Covid-19 Bankruptcies Bleeding Out Jobs, Economic Capacity
Covid-19 bankrupties show how the disease is draining the economy.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:13 am | 37 Comments »