Monthly Archives: December 2019

December 31, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/31/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/31/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Trump, Granting Lobbyist Demands, Quietly Handed Billions More in Tax Breaks to Huge Corporations: Report
  by Yves Smith 3:31 am

• Australia Burning; Tourists in New South Wales and Victoria Flee to Beaches
  by Yves Smith 3:08 am

December 30, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/30/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Nebraska Farmers Lead on Right to Repair
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:55 pm

• Links 12/30/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Why Bad Customer Service Won’t Improve Anytime Soon
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

December 29, 2019

• London Tops Global Study for World’s Worst Microplastics Pollution
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 12/29/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• How Sales Shopping Is Killing the Planet
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

December 28, 2019

• Links 12/28/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• 7 Science-Based Strategies To Boost Your Willpower and Succeed with Your New Year’s Resolutions
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

• Reports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

December 27, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/27/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/27/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Loss of Fair Play
  by Yves Smith 3:21 am

• How Amazon Gains Control & Domination
  by Yves Smith 1:09 am

December 26, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/26/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• An Extremely Online Christmas Sampler
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Links 12/26/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• We Asked, You Answered: Here’s How The Climate Changed Your Lives In 2019
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

December 25, 2019

• Links 12/25/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• A Christmas Sampler
  by Yves Smith 4:25 am

• How Crisco Toppled Lard – and Made Americans Believers in Industrial food
  by Yves Smith 2:30 am

December 24, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/24/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/24/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Muilenburg Forced Out of Boeing, But 737 Max No Closer to Flying. What Happens If It Stays Grounded?
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
  by Yves Smith 2:45 am

• “Where Should I Move To Be Safe from Climate Change?’
  by Yves Smith 1:36 am

• Holiday Schedule and Comments Holiday
  by Yves Smith 12:35 am

December 23, 2019

• Trumpian Rhetoric: The Case of His Letter to Pelosi (and Foreshadowing 2020).
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/23/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/23/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Electronic Health Records Creating A ‘New Era’ Of Health Care Fraud
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• Pete Buttigieg’s Odd Time at McKinsey
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• The Terribly Difficult Things Health Care CEOs Must Do to Make the Big Bucks: Back-to-Back Meetings, Complicated Schedules, Fatiguing Driving?!
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

December 22, 2019

• Soil Science, Climate Change, and Property
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 12/22/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Energy Analysts Deliver More Bad News for US Fracking Industry’s Business Model
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

December 21, 2019

• Links 12/21/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Financialization of Child and Elder Care: The Tax Justice Network December 2019 Podcast
  by Yves Smith 3:45 am

• Productivity Does Not Explain Wages
  by Yves Smith 3:17 am

December 20, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• What Is an ‘Old-Growth’ Forest?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/20/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Portion Of Obamacare
  by Yves Smith 4:03 am

• US Freight Shipments Fall Below 2014 Level. Answers Emerge
  by Yves Smith 3:19 am

December 19, 2019

• Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #8 in Los Angeles, California
  by Lambert Strether 7:30 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/19/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Sanders Report Shows How Millennial Generation Is ‘Being Punished With Crushing Student Debt and Low-Paying Jobs’
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• After the Argentina Debacle, the IMF Endorses Weakening Capital Controls in Ecuador
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Sweden Retreats from Negative Interest Rate Experiment
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

• Impeachment Semi-Open Thread
  by Yves Smith 3:05 am

December 18, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• As Rural Americans Struggle for Health Care Access, Insurers May Be Making Things Worse
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/18/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Bill Black: Lawrence O’Donnell Aims at Buttigieg, But Hits New Democrats
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Can The EV Revolution Survive Without Tax Credits?
  by Yves Smith 6:21 am

• The Green New Deal as an Anti-Neoliberal Program
  by Yves Smith 2:58 am

December 17, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/17/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• A National Disgrace’: Trump Proposes Social Security Change That Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/17/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wildfires Are Getting Worse, and So Is the Deadly Smoke They Bring With Them
  by Yves Smith 5:52 am

• What Would Happen If The ACA Went Away?
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• Boeing Halts 737 Max Production to Reduce Cash Burn; Suppliers Hit; Measurable Ding to GDP Expected
  by Yves Smith 4:19 am

December 16, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Ruling that George Mason University Foundation Is Not Subject to State FOIA Statute, Leaving Koch Funding Details Undisclosed
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 12/16/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Climate Change: US Denounced as ‘Threat to Humanity’ as COP25 Ends Without Deal on Big Polluters’ Responsibility to Frontline Nations
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Felix Rohatyn, an Icon of an Older Wall Street, Is Dead
  by Yves Smith 3:59 am

• Don’t Blame Corbyn or Brexit: Labour Failed To Rage Against the Hated Political System
  by Yves Smith 1:56 am

December 15, 2019

• California Governor Newsom Nixes PG&E Bankruptcy Plan
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 12/15/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

December 14, 2019

• Links 12/14/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
  by Yves Smith 5:11 am

• Mariana Mazzucato: What Is Economic Value, and Who Creates It?
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

December 13, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/13/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• There is No Economics Without Politics
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/13/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• As NLRB Delivers ‘Victory’ to McDonald’s, Docs Reveal Fast Food Giant’s Dirty Anti-Union Tactics
  by Yves Smith 4:23 am

• Tories Rout Labour; Corbyn to Depart; SNP Also Wins Big, Setting Up Long-Term Dissolution Struggle
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

• In the Shadow of Impeachment, Neoliberal Democrats Hand Trump a Victory With USMCA (“NAFTA 2.0”)
  by Yves Smith 12:41 am

December 12, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/12/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Hurricane Truthers’: Bonkers Conspiracies Are Putting Lives in Danger
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• UK Election Day Is Here
  by Yves Smith 4:31 am

• Climate Migration Frightens… Climate Poverty Is Frightening!
  by Yves Smith 2:58 am

• Tesla’s Cybertruck Dead Last In Truck Survey
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

December 11, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/11/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/11/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• To Resolve the Economic & Environmental Crisis, Do Not Bank On the Private Sector
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• No End for Drought as Sydney Disappears Into Smoke
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

December 10, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/10/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Payday Lenders Offering Installment Loans to Evade Regulations – But They May Be Even Worse
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/10/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Misunderstanding Volcker
  by Yves Smith 5:40 am

• A Window into European Versus US Management
  by Yves Smith 4:04 am

• “Less-Lethal” Weapon Abuse in Chile
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

December 9, 2019

• Impeachment, the House as Prosecutor, and Justice
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• BBVA Compass Fails to Dispute, Much the Less Remedy, Retaliatory Swatting, Disclosure of Confidential Information, and Reckless Treatment of Elderly Customer
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business: The Reassurances Are Demonstrably False
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 12/9/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Elizabeth Warren’s “Foreign Policy”
  by Yves Smith 2:23 am

December 8, 2019

• Estuaries, Climate Change, and “Blue Carbon”
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 12/8/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Using History to Understand Hidden Wealth in the UK
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

December 7, 2019

• Links 12/7/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Geography of EU Discontent
  by Yves Smith 4:17 am

• Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
  by Yves Smith 2:43 am

December 6, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/6/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• Coal Is Dead, But China Is Reviving It
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

• Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• CalPERS Should Thank Us for Publicizing, and Therefore Undermining Their Repeated Efforts to Hand Private Equity Portfolio to BlackRock: BlackRock’s Mark Wiseman Fired for Affair With Subordinate, Leading to Suspension of New Investments from “Warren Buffett” Style Megafund
  by Yves Smith 4:49 am

December 5, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Dark Waters’ Tells the Origin Story of a Public Health Nightmare. We’re Still Living It.
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/5/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Questioning Innovation
  by Yves Smith 6:34 am

• Tucker Carlson Tears into Vulture Capitalist Paul Singer for Strip Mining American Towns
  by Yves Smith 4:44 am

• The Debt Delusion
  by Yves Smith 1:24 am

December 4, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• CalPERS Still Owns Toxic National Enquirer Via Hedge Fund Chatham; CEO Marcie Frost Falsely Says It Was Sold; Columbia Journalism Review Depicts Pending Sale as a Sham
  by Yves Smith 10:15 am

• Links 12/4/19
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Why the UK Needs a Financial Transaction Tax
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am

• Opening of Formerly Secret FDA Database Exposes Medical Device Failures, Spurring Lawsuits
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

• Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer
  by Yves Smith 3:43 am

December 3, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/3/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• J.D Alt: The People’s Money (Part 4)
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/3/19
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Private Equity’s Uninvested “Dry Powder” and Falling Returns Reflect a Bigger Problem: The End of a Long Term Disinflationary Tail Wind
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• An Introduction to the State of Energy Storage in the U.S.
  by Yves Smith 5:14 am

• Hubert Horan Discusses Uber on Harry Shearer’s Le Show
  by Yves Smith 1:16 am

December 2, 2019

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/2/2019
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: Fashion Rental Services Expand, NYC Tackles Commercial Textile Waste
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:15 am

• Links 12/2/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Decrying ‘Utterly Inadequate’ Efforts to Tackle Climate Crisis, UN Chief Declares ‘Our War Against Nature Must Stop’
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:00 am

• What This Election Proves Is the Need for Epoch Making Change
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

• America’s War Exceptionalism Is Killing the Planet
  by Yves Smith 12:52 am

December 1, 2019

• AOC Schools Mayor Pete on Why Means Testing Free College Is Such a Bad Idea
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:25 pm

• Links 12/1/19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Oil and Gas Industry Rebukes Fracking Ban Talk as UN Shows Just How Much Fossil Fuel Plans Are Screwing Climate Limits
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am