Can venture capitalists, private equity, Republican fixers, biomedical serial entrepreneurs, and scientists from two medical institutes deliver a #COVID19 solution that involves mass certification via a cellphone app, and a new hybrid form of governance, an “empowered council”?
Saturday, July 12, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: “Nearly half of the Q1 decline in GDP can be attributed to healthcare, which is presumably delaying of elective procedures.” Can this be true?
Schadenfraude Alert: Airbnb Mini-Moguls in Meltdown as Bookings Collapse
Once fat and happy Airbnb landlords are now in a world of hurt.
‘No Consequences for Negligence That Kills’: McConnell Wants Corporate Immunity From Covid-19 Lawsuits
Not content with pursuing pro-business judicial nominations alone, Mitch McConnell seeks to circumscribe corporate COVID-19 legal liability.
Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same
An overview of the dislocations in the oil market.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/28/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress
How hopes for coronavirus tests are ahead of the state of play.
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.
