Some promising news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
The Coming Deadly Covid Winter
Extrapolating from well-advanced Covid developments leads to some ugly destinations.
Thanksgiving Schedule and Comments Holiday
We are taking a Thanksgiving mini-break. Hope you get one too.
What Would a State-Owned Amazon Look Like? Ask Argentina
Amazon hasn’t done well in Latin America. Now Argentina will challenge private platforms to benefit workers, consumers and sellers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/24/2020
~ Covid charts show Midwest improvement ~ Democrat jouissance after GSA ascertainment ~ Diversity ~ Hunter Thompson, prophet ~ Manufacturing, housing ~ Supply chain ~ Wolves ~ Amazon organizing ~ Evictions ~ Occam’s Razor
Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
More discussion of an analysis that concluded that the only way to “fix the economy” was to tackle Covid…and not hope for a vaccine bailout
Brexit: Decisions
The Brexit trade talks illustrate that not deciding amounts to a decision.
Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Trump kicks Yemen.
What Connects Grenfell Tower, Dams on the Mekong, and a Shortage of Glass Vials for Covid Vaccines? Sand!
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2020
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How to Move Beyond Utopian Socialism and Libertarianism
It is vital to escape the standard binary debates of state versus market or public versus private ownership.
