Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]
Monday, February 2, 2026
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/2/2020
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Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
Big Banks Grow Bigger and Smaller Banks Disappear, As Mergers Return to Crisis-Hit Eurozone
A fresh wave of bank failures and mergers are set to trigger a new round of consolidation of the Eurozone’s banking system
How Do You Combat Information Overreach?
A shaggy dog story, and a request for reader ideas on how to escape unreasonable requests for personal information.
Are “Net-Zero” Emissions a Smoke Screen?
A wide-ranging, and therefore sobering, discussion of climate change policy, including emissions and temperature targets.
Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK
More bad news on the inequality front.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/1/2020
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MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative
A political economy take on the EU.
Another Blow to Private Equity: “You Can Pick Winners” Again Shown To Be a Fool’s Game
More bad news about private equity returns.
Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Obama’s Promised Land: Obama Wept (Two Episodes from Campaign 2008)
Obama on the trail in 2008….
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020
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