The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/13/2020
~ Covid charts ~ Democrats in disarray, CIA Democrats ~ Biden’s defense team is defense contractors ~ Ron Klain ~ The “Latinx” vote ~ Alabama’s Tuberville, Kentucky’s Rogers ~ Horrid Apple OS rollout ~ Is America in decline? ~ Gratitude
2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade
A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.
The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats
Ticketmaster wants to use technology to make events safer. Too bad its ideas are intrusive and medically questionable.
Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/12/2020
~ Covid chart ~ Unimpressive Michigan affidavits ~ Epistemological crises ~ Biden walkbacks begin ~ Trump v. Biden spending per vote ~ The awfulness of Proposition 22 ~ Obama’s new book ~ Google bills for storage ~ Bank of Solidarity
Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures
Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?
Home Health Aide Services for the Elderly as a Lemon Market
Some shaggy dog stories and analysis on wh the home health care aide industry performs poorly, at least here in the US.
Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread
And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….
