How hopes for coronavirus tests are ahead of the state of play.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Quarantine Cat Tricks
Cat intermission.
Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.
In a Slap in the Face to Progressives, Biden Appoints Larry Summers, a “Literal Architect of Neoliberalism,” to Economic Advisory Role
If you need proof that Biden doesn’t give a damn about oridinary people, his bringing Larry Summers in from political exile should convince you.
#COVID19 Lockdowns, the Reopen Protests, and Wage Labor
Pandemics and TINA.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/27/2020
I don’t feel like writing a post summary today, so I won’t. Take that, Google.
No Alternative to Sustainable Agriculture: How Community-Supported Farms Show the Way to Food Security in an Uncertain World
One of the areas in which we are least prepared for the many complex challenges surrounding us is in our relationship to food.
CalPERS Out of Control: Stunningly High Number of Personal Trading Violations, Yet Board Ignored the Misconduct
CalPERS yet again manages to exceed expectations in a bad way.
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton With Michael Hudson: How The US Makes Countries Pay For Its Wars – Economics Of American Imperialism
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own occupation.
The Campaign Memo Bernie Never Listened To: Did Sanders Run the Most Clueless Modern Political Campaign?
Lambert here: This is the strongest statement of what I might call “the drawing distinctions thesis” I have seen, here distinguishing Sanders from Warren (as opposed to from Biden, as proposed by Sirota). Looking at the concrete proposals, I think that “3) The Obama years must be discredited” (as often proposed by Stoller) would be […]
Why Don’t We Just Provide an Emergency Basic Income to Businesses?
The Small Business Administration’s Payroll Protection Program has been a mess
