Board member Margaret Brown has finally had it with CalPERS’ dirty tricks.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Who Benefits From New Technologies?
Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely?
Dogpiling Taibbi and the Dearth of the Free Press
A cri de couer on sorting the news
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/22/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
The Economy Isn’t About Money. It’s About Putting Food on the Table
Our Enlightenment predecessors recognized not one but five economies – and the pandemic has reinvigorated our taste for them.
Grim Prospects for New York City as Few Office Workers Return Post Lockdown; How Hard Will Other US Cities Be Hit?
An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City.
Who Pays for Stranded Assets? Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For 100-Year Old Oil Wells
Why shuttering oil wells is a physical, economic, and political mess.
Grenfell Tower Fire: Third-Year Anniversary (Non-)Progress Report
Some progress on Grenfell Tower: Remediating apartment blocks, ongoing inquiries, regulatory proposals. But not nearly enough. And then there’s the potential IT boondoggle. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…
We Caught Bacteria from the Most Pristine Air on Earth to Help Solve a Climate Modeling Mystery
Due to how remote the Southern Ocean is, there have been very few actual studies of the clouds there.
What Do Struggling Small Businesses Need Most? Time – and Bankruptcy Can Provide It
Can a leisurely bankruptcy process help small businesses?
Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/19/2020
COVID-19 in the West ~ Klobuchar knifes Warren ~ Could Biden be running a genius-level campaign ~ Empathy ~ Who lost China? ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Trump the undefeated ~ Amy McGrath ~ Rail, trucking, tankers ~ Go long Plexiglass ~ Ocean rise and the 30-year mortgage ~ Juneteenth ~ CHOP/CHAZ v. the Commune ~ R.I.P. Ian Holm ~ Smell and the brain
