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Thursday, September 18, 2025
Links 8/17/2020
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 338 Comments »
Brawl Over Mayberry v. KKR: Big Hearing Monday Over One Contested Issue, Whether Attorney General Can Intervene in Kentucky Retirement Systems Case
The next phase of Mayberry is set to be particularly scrappy as lawyers joust for position.
Topics: Hedge funds, Investment management, Legal, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:08 am | 7 Comments »
Preparing for the COVID-19 Third Wave: The Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a promising Covid-19 treatment that is being ignored.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:57 am | 22 Comments »
Mauritius Oil Spill Tragedy: How and Why the MV Wakashio Ran Aground, and Aftermath
A mysterious course change, a birthday party, oil on the beaches, and a billion dollars in compensation (maybe).
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Japan
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 pm | 42 Comments »
Links 8/16/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 240 Comments »
COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul
There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system.
Topics: Health care
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:18 am | 13 Comments »
Links 8/15/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 293 Comments »
Scientists Seek to Collect Ice Core Samples Before Glaciers and Ice Sheets Melt
Ancient ice tells the secrets of the past, but it’s melting as the world warms.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:09 am | 18 Comments »
Universal Testing: An Overlooked Covid-19 Policy Response
Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:51 am | 30 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 187 Comments »
The A Levels Results Crisis and the Covid Education Train Wreck
Covid-19 is increasing inequality in educational outcomes, and that problem isn’t going away any time soon.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 48 Comments »
Links 8/14/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 154 Comments »
Summer Rerun: Journey Into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision
An examination of libertarian thinking, based on the work of one of its strong-form proponents, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:06 am | 37 Comments »
‘Morality Pills’ May Be the US’s Best Shot at Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic, According to One Ethicist
An ethicist seriously suggests forced medication to increase cooperation with pandemic mask-wearing.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:41 am | 85 Comments »
The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Zip Code Map of Inequality
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lower-income communities was decades in the making.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:45 am | 13 Comments »