Teachers are again in the middle of a political fight, this one over the perceived need to reopen US schools pronto.
Friday, July 18, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/7/2020
COVID-19 problem states, New York ups quarantine ~ Biden’s path to failure ~ Sanders post mortem ~ Trump’s curiously silent internal polling ~ “A pitiful, helpless giant” ~ Lincoln Project ~ Employment, housing ~ COVID treatment improves ~ Zombie artic fires ~ Reparations ~ Forms of happiness
COVID-19 ‘Please Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,’ Nurse Pleads
A nurse speaks from one of the Covid-19 mask battlegrounds.
Key CIA-Backed Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
A sordid example of what happens when the CIA is willing to get in bed with just about anyone to advance what it sees as US interests.
Universities in a Mess Over Upcoming Year; Some Reopenings Meeting Fierce Resistance
Universities face an anxious and meager school year.
Time for the West to Embrace Chinese Industrial Policy, Not Eliminate it
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that the US does have an industrial policy, even if it comes out by default through which groups manage to extract the most subsidies. Favored sectors include housing, the defense-surveillance complex, financial services, higher education, oil and gas, and niche interests like sugar. So the umbrage about China (and Japan […]
Can Davos Man Punch the “Great Reset” Button?
The World Economics Forum asks for trouble next year, both ideologically and institutionally.
Exiting the Vampire Castle
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other
Hubert Horan: Can Collateralizing Frequent Flyer Programs Help Save the US Airlines?
Dissecting the latest airline gimmick to separate investors from their money: pledging their frequent flyer programs.
Risking Nuclear War for Dollars
Why the risk of nuclear war has been and remains much higher than you realize.
2020’s Plague of Locusts Spreads to Indian Subcontinent and South America
State of play for locust infestations in Nepal, Pakistan, India, Argentina, Brazil…. and the United States.
Three Strikes against the Fed
Until the results of new stress tests are known, the uncertainty principle calls for extreme caution in the regulator’s approach to the capital adequacy of systemically important banks (and indeed of banks in general).
