Saturday, October 5, 2024
Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
A World Without Ice
Looking at the impact of the loss of ice in nature.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Gravel, Sanders, Warren, Pelosi v. AOC, Warren and Sanders voters, negative partisanship, oppo, producer price index, Apple, Google, reforestation, the Arctic, the “Blue Line Punisher” in St. Louis, sinkholes in Baltimore, false online personas, rage, selfies, metal knitters
Deutsche Bank Highlights a Society at Risk
Why the erosion of personal standards has become a collective risk.
Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Michael Hudson on how the US was able to turn its change from creditor to debtor to its advantage.
Brexit: Will Boris or Won’t He?
Does Johnson have any Brexit wriggle room?
Hospitals Block ‘Surprise Billing’ Measure In California
Hospitals flex their muscles and the public loses.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/11/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Cargill, Harris, Sanders, Gravel, Epstein fallout, Adolph Reed interview, AOC v. Pelosi, Amy McGrath v. Mitch McConnel, consumer price index, jobless claims, Bank of America, Tesla’s robot cars, Google eavesdropping, Twitter algos, Boeing 737, trees, suburbs, MMT, Oklahoma!
A Way Out from Rock Bottom: Economic Policies Can Reduce Deaths of Despair
Looking at how specific income-boosting policies reduce deaths.
It Is Time To Start Forgiving Student Loans – And Here Is What It Will Cost
A far-ranging plan for cleaning up the student loan mess.
Transfer (Mis)pricing, the Jewel in Every Multinational Enterprise’s Crown
Transfer pricing: How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
PG&E Neglected Maintenance for Years Despite Known Fire Risk; Judge Demands Prompt and Clear Answers to WSJ Expose
A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
