Today’s Water Cooler: Public transport supply chain, Huawei, Buttigieg, De Blasio, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Democrat lawyer donors, Mueller, 2020 and the Squad, manufacturing, housing, Amazon, UPS, McKinsey bots, Disney, FTC gives Facebook Get Out of Jail Free card, school lunch, Vonnegut
Saturday, October 5, 2024
The Politics of CEOs
Quelle surprise! CEOs back parties with an eye to increasing their own power.
“We Wargamed the Last Days of Brexit. Here’s What We Found Out.”
Yves here. It seemed fitting to post again on Brexit, if nothing else to commemorate, if that’s the right word, Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister of the UK Wednesday afternoon. It’s not a good omen that the EU has felt compelled to debunk Johnson’s campaign claims about Brexit that have been taken up again by […]
‘This Is the Beginning’: New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbug
How rising temperatures helped create superbug C. auris and may turn other fungi lethal.
Softening Real Estate Markets in Prime West Coast Cities: Does China Trump IPOs?
Looking at undercurrents in West Coast economies and what they might portend for the US.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Pork exports to China, Harris, Klobuchar, Warren, Mueller, no more “smart shopping” for heatlh care, manufacturing, housing, trucking spot market, robots, how Amazon moves data, Boeing, coastal relocation, contrails, trees, hospital monopolies, student debt, Medicare abroad (not)
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
The goal of any serious climate policy is to keep oil and other fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Accounts Ponzi Scheme
Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron.
Elizabeth Warren Seeks to Cut Private Equity Down to Size
Elizabeth Warren’s bill to end private equity abuses targets a wide range of bad practices.
John Helmer: MH17 Evidence Tampering Revealed by Malaysia – FBI Attempt To Seize Black Boxes; Dutch Cover-Up of Forged Telephone Tapes; Ukrainian Air Force Hid Radar Records; Crash Site Witness Testimony Misreported
The Malaysian government has come out against the findings of the JIT in the MH17 crash, charging US, Urkainian, and other offiicials with lying and engaging in evidence suppression and tampering.
Robert O. Paxton’s “The Five Stages of Fascism”
Extracts from the work of Robert O. Paxton, with an assessment of the stage our political system has arrived at under the Trump administration.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily and partially open thread.
