Monthly Archives: May 2019

May 31, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/31/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Consumer Contracts Restatement Delayed: Consumers Win…For Now
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/31/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Glyphosate Use Surges in Midwest, Lawsuits Mount: What Will the Supremes Say?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows 2/3 of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now Lobbyists
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

• Trump Admin’s Latest Rail Safety Rollback Sets up Industry to Make Its Own Rules
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 am

May 30, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/30/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Lawmakers Push To Stop Surprise ER Billing
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/30/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty: Will the “Train Wreck” Uber/Lyft IPOs Finally Change the Public Narrative About Ridesharing?
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• Is Conservatism Running on Brand Fumes?
  by Yves Smith 4:52 am

• Does Iran’s Economic Fate Depend on a Lifeline From China?
  by Yves Smith 12:45 am

• Reminder: Birmingham Meetup Tonight!
  by Yves Smith 12:04 am

May 29, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/29/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Why Martin Wolf Is Wrong on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/29/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• UBI Without Quality Public Services Is a Neoliberal’s Paradise
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Embattled CalPERS Board Incumbent Henry Jones Puts Foot in Mouth, Doubles Down on Strategy That Got Two Board Members Turfed Out
  by Yves Smith 5:03 am

• What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out
  by Yves Smith 4:18 am

May 28, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/28/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Some Schools Shutting MBA Programs….But Don’t Cheer Yet
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• Modi’s Win: It Wasn’t the Economy, Stupid!
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• Can Small-Scale Farmers Grow a Healthier Central Valley?
  by Yves Smith 3:00 am

• Meetups Coming Soon! Birmingham Meetup This Thursday May 30; Confirmation and More Details on Our Wednesday June 12 Cleveland and Thursday June 13 Chicago Meetups
  by Yves Smith 12:03 am

May 27, 2019

• The 2018 Midterms: U.S. Census Data on the “Coalition of the Ascendant,” Voter Registration, and Voting
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/27/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 5/27/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The “Forever Wars” Enshrined: Visiting Mar-SAYLZ
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

May 26, 2019

• How Shortening the Work Week Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 pm

• Links 5/26/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Electric Vehicle Revolution Will Come from China — not the US
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

May 25, 2019

• Links 5/25/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons From the Age of Mass Migration
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

• The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

May 24, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 5/24/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Beware Billionaires Bearing Gifts
  by Yves Smith 6:09 am

• Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange’s Espionage Charges
  by Yves Smith 4:14 am

• How Dogs Help Keep Multiracial Neighborhoods Socially Segregated
  by Yves Smith 3:57 am

May 23, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/23/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Trump’s ‘America First’ Trade Strategy Is Accelerating America’s Decline
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/23/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is Theresa May Finally Over?
  by Yves Smith 3:52 am

• FAA Won’t Say When Boeing 737 Max Might Fly Again; Foreign Regulators Uppity
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

• Documenting the Train Wreck: Atmospheric CO2 Is Now Higher Than Ever in Human History, and Rising
  by Yves Smith 12:13 am

May 22, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/22/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Bankruptcy: An Option for Taxi Drivers Crushed by Medallion Loans?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/22/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• FDA Allowed Medtronic to Shield Info on Heart Device Failures
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Trump’s Sneak Attack on Social Security
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Public-Private Partnerships Fad Fails
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

May 21, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/21/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EPA Changes Math to Allow Burning of More Coal
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/21/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Bill Black: Ocasio-Cortez & Sanders Introduce Bill to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• “Code Red” at Tesla as Carmaggedon Sinks Tesla Bonds, Carmaker May Need Another $1-2 Billion Before Year End
  by Yves Smith 12:48 am

• The Bad News About Nudges: They Might Be Backfiring
  by Yves Smith 12:02 am

May 20, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/20/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: Fashion Stumbles on Sustainability
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/20/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Battle for Rights of Nature Heats Up in the Great Lakes
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Technology, Convenience…..and Death
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

• On The Cusp Of War: Why Iran Won’t Fold
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

May 19, 2019

• Wednesday June 12 Meetup in Cleveland and Thursday June 13 in Chicago?
  by Yves Smith 10:38 pm

• Plastic and Climate Change: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/19/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• After Standing Rock, Protesting Pipelines Can Get You a Decade in Prison and $100K in Fines
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

May 18, 2019

• Links 5/18/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of White, Non-College-Educated Americans Born In The 1960s
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana
  by Yves Smith 1:57 am

May 17, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How to Pay for the War
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/17/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Gregory Travis and Marshall Auerback: Anatomy of a Disaster – Why Boeing Should Never Make Another Airplane, Again
  by Yves Smith 4:25 am

• Peak Gasoline Vehicles Is Already Here
  by Yves Smith 1:22 am

• Wolf Richter: Subprime Bites – Auto-Loan Delinquencies Spike to Q3 2009 Level, Despite Strongest Labor Market in Years
  by Yves Smith 12:05 am

May 16, 2019

• Announcing Birmingham Meetup Thursday May 30
  by Yves Smith 4:15 pm

• Permaculture, the Health of the Soil, and Climate Change
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/16/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 5/16/19
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• How Kentucky Tried to Make the Country’s Worst-Funded Public Pension Plan Even Worse
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• “There Is No Alternative” to Managing the Economy and the Climate
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

May 15, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/15/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• British Government Passes the Buck to Sweden Where the Military Offense Exclusion Protects Julian Assange From Extradition to the Us
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/15/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• ”Who Says Violence Doesn’t Solve Anything?” A Review of Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• How Deep Is Boeing’s Hole?
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• China-US Trade War Heats Up: 3 Reasons It Won’t Cool Down Anytime Soon
  by Yves Smith 12:50 am

May 14, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Working on Cloudflare’s Captcha Hell
  by Yves Smith 1:45 pm

• SEC to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/14/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Facebook’s Finance Fantasy Island Dreams
  by Clive 6:06 am

• “It’s Not Just Barclays – Tackling Climate Change Means Building a New Bank System”
  by Yves Smith 4:24 am

• ZEN and the Art of Modern Money, Part 3 (MMT)
  by Yves Smith 3:29 am

• Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

May 13, 2019

• ZEN and the Art of Modern Money, Part 2 (MMT)
  by Yves Smith 6:12 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Josh Hawley (R-MO) and How the Social Media Economy Addicts Users
  by Lambert Strether 1:25 pm

• Links 5/13/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Four Industries Big Tech Has Ruined
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise
  by Yves Smith 1:11 am

May 12, 2019

• CalPERS Admits It Is Nowhere on Its New Private Scheme After More Than Two Years
  by Yves Smith 7:55 am

• Links 5/12/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Joe Biden Looks to Revive Obama’s Climate Plan. Scientists Say That’s Not Good Enough
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

May 11, 2019

• Links 5/11/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• As Oregon Sends Jordan Cove LNG Back to Drawing Board, Gulf Coast Projects Press Forward
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:25 am

• Politicization of Sports and Sportization of Politics: A Global Dangerous Trend
  by Yves Smith 3:23 am

May 10, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/10/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Gabriel, R.I.P.
  by Yves Smith 5:44 am

• Why You Should Back the Sanders/AOC Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%, Re-Launch the Postal Savings Bank
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• The Shale Boom Is About To Go Bust
  by Yves Smith 3:22 am

May 9, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Perhaps It’s Time to Start Worrying About Global Corporate Debt, Suggests Bank of England
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/9/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Brexit: Stuck
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

• Farming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World
  by Yves Smith 2:27 am

• The U.N. Says 1 Million Species Could Disappear. Pacific islands Have a Solution
  by Yves Smith 12:39 am

May 8, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Student Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/8/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Brexit’s Disaster Socialism
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

• U.S.-China: These Are Much More Than Just Trade Talks
  by Yves Smith 2:04 am

• All Eyes on the Fed
  by Yves Smith 12:59 am

May 7, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/7/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ZEN and the Art of Modern Money (MMT)
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/7/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Boeing’s Crapified Safety Culture: Airline Pressured, Overruled FAA Designees, Told FAA Late of Problems, Gave Inconsistent Stories to 737 Max Customers
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

• Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran?
  by Yves Smith 1:05 am

• Ilargi: Renewables Are Dead
  by Yves Smith 12:37 am

May 6, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler Special: Blowback on Russiagate for 2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/6/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• War on Cash: UK’s First Till-Free Grocery Store
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/6/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Climate Change: The Wrath of Cyclone Fani
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran.
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

May 5, 2019

• Good Riddance to CalPERS’ Bill Slaton; Board Changes May (Finally) Lead to Staff Serving Beneficiaries, Not Its Own Interests
  by Yves Smith 10:13 am

• Links 5/5/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Bill Black: Thousands Die, Millions Injured on the Job, and No Businesses Prosecuted
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

May 4, 2019

• Links 5/4/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Next US Recession Is Likely to Be Around the Corner
  by Lambert Strether 6:54 am

• Yes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem—But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy
  by Yves Smith 12:41 am

May 3, 2019

• Lessons about White Privilege, Social Liberal Backlash, and Trump 2.0
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Some Problems with Treating Democracies as “Information Systems,” Starting with Voting and Ending with Money
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Links 5/3/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Rep Jayapal and Sen Sanders Have Introduced Medicare For All Bills: One Is a Lot Better Than the Other
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• Spring Stirrings and Misgivings: Of Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

May 2, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/2/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EPA Says Glyphosate Is Safe, But Lawsuits Loom and Bayer’s Woes Mount
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 5/2/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Lawsuit Aims to Curtail Warrantless Searches of Electronic Devices at US Border
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Wolf Richter: Tesla Discloses Record Pollution Credits for Q1: Without Them, it Would Have Lost $918 Million and Bled $1.14 Billion in Cash
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Coping With World Bank-Led Financialization
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

May 1, 2019

• Bill Black and June Carbone Will Join Our Minneapolis Meetup Tomorrow, May 2!
  by Yves Smith 10:58 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Apple to California Legislators: Consumers Will Hurt Themselves if Provided a Right to Repair
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/1/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Plastic Watch: Debunking the Technofix Fairy, Biodegradable Bags Don’t Degrade
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• We Live in a World With Very Rich Multinational Mining Companies, and Very Poor Miners
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:25 am

• Bill Black: If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren’t Used, What Can Warren Change?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am