Monthly Archives: February 2020

February 29, 2020

• Links 2/29/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Housing Insecurity, Homelessness, and Populism: Evidence from the UK
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

• More Than 9 Million People Use Freecycle Instead of Buying New
  by Yves Smith 4:43 am

February 28, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Coronavirus Collateral Damage: How a Case in Korea Hit a Small Business in the US
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/28/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Informative Transgressions
  by Yves Smith 5:57 am

• The Candidate’s Dilemma: “I Call on My Opponents To Stop Calling on Me To Drop Out.”
  by Yves Smith 3:24 am

• Why Is Trump Trying to Kill a Small Agency with a Big Impact on Public Safety?
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

February 27, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Plastic Watch: Sack the Sachet, Campaign to Ban More Low-Hanging Fruit in UK and EU; NY Plastic Bag Ban Begins 1 March
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/27/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Coronavirus: To Prep or Not To Prep
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Boris Johnson, Not Donald Trump, Is the Real Blue-Collar Conservative
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Secret US Chemical Warfare Contracts at the UK Porton Down Lab – Dead Monkeys Tell Their Tales, But Live Skripals Can’t
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

February 26, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/26/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• New Deal, New Patriots: How Roosevelt’s Welfare Programmes Made America Great Again
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/26/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Alaska’s Marine Ecosystem Is Changing ‘Decades Too Early’ Due to Climate Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

• The Race to Slash ‘Red Tape’ in Post-Brexit Britain Has Begun. How Can It Be Resisted?
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

February 25, 2020

• Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #12 in Charleston, SC
  by Lambert Strether 7:30 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• 3 Energy Sectors Most Threatened by the Coronavirus
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: The Democrats’ Quandary – In a Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy, Something Must Give
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• CalPERS’ Dishonest Response to Representative Jim Banks Regarding Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng and CalPERS’ Chinese Investments
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Is Bloomberg Buying the DNC? If So, What Does He Plan to Do With It?
  by Yves Smith 12:10 am

February 24, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/24/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• New Mexico Attorney General Sues Google Over Kiddie Privacy
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/24/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• To Many’s Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate Instead of Oil and Profits
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:25 am

• Coronavirus: Panic Starting
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

• Andrew Bacevich: Pseudo-Events as a New Normal
  by Yves Smith 2:04 am

February 23, 2020

• Links 2/23/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Legacy Admissions: Johns Hopkins Drops Preferences, Other Institutions Consider Changes
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Wolf Richter: Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike to Record High, Past Financial-Crisis Peak, as Other Consumers Relish the Good Times. Why?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:25 am

February 22, 2020

• Links 2/22/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Taxcast: Financial Secrecy Index: Who Are the World’s Worst Offenders?
  by Yves Smith 4:25 am

• Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your Health
  by Yves Smith 4:13 am

February 21, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/21/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How To Roast the Planet with Good Intentions: The Climate Equity Act
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/21/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Private Equity’s War to Preserve Surprise Billing
  by Yves Smith 5:34 am

• Coronavirus: Go Forth and Multiply
  by Yves Smith 4:37 am

• Why No Retired Generals Oppose America’s Forever Wars
  by Yves Smith 12:40 am

February 20, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/20/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Potential Climate Consequences of China’s Belt and Roads Initiative
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/20/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• Russia Is Defeating The U.S. In The Middle East Oil Game
  by Yves Smith 2:56 am

February 19, 2020

• Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #11 in Las Vegas, NV
  by Lambert Strether 8:30 pm

• Bad Bets and the Corona Virus Epidemic
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 2/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:59 am

• CalPERS’ Election Rigging: Pushing for Most Costly, Insecure Online and Phone Voting Despite Abject Failure, Why? To Help SEIU Influence Election
  by Yves Smith 6:56 am

• HSBC Announces Mass Job Cuts, Huge Write-Down, Asset Sales, Halt of Share Buybacks. Warns of Coronavirus Impact on Credit Losses & Revenues in China & Hong Kong
  by Yves Smith 6:18 am

• The American Health Care System Costs Four Times More Than Canada’s Single-Payer System (and the Public Option Won’t Help)
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

February 18, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/18/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Plastic Watch: Congress Considers Bill to Impose Extended Producer Responsibility, AKA ‘You Break It, You Buy It’
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/18/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Another Demise of a Storied Business at the Hands of Private Equity: Fairway
  by Yves Smith 3:43 am

• Not All Keynesian Spending Is Equal
  by Yves Smith 12:54 am

• On February 6 Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, But Mainstream Democrats Fiddle as the Planet Burns
  by Yves Smith 12:43 am

February 17, 2020

• A Plague of Locusts, Failed States, and Climate Change
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/17/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 2/17/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Climate Risks to European Banks: A New Era of Stress Tests
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• More Concerns About China’s Coronavirus Economic and Political Downside
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

• Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
  by Yves Smith 12:40 am

February 16, 2020

• Links 2/16/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
  by Yves Smith 2:55 am

• Foreign Exchange Swaps: Hidden Debt, Lurking Vulnerability
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

February 15, 2020

• Links 2/15/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, It’s Never Too Late for the Lobbyists to Win)
  by Yves Smith 3:47 am

• Believe It or Not, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was Even Worse Than Previously Thought
  by Yves Smith 3:28 am

February 14, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Public’s Right to Know: HA! How Courts and Federal Agencies Stonewall on Citizen Access to Government Information
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/14/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Progressives to Voters Skeptical of Bernie Sanders: This ‘Big Tent’ Movement Is a Winning and Practical Choice
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 2:55 am

February 13, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Right to Repair Roundup: One Step Forward, One to the Side
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 2/13/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Trump Drops Antitrust Probe of Four Automakers Which Adopted Tougher Cal Tailpipe Emissions Standards
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

• Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:25 am

February 12, 2020

• Last Minute Mini-Meetup in Dallas Tomorrow Night!
  by Yves Smith 8:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:13 pm

• Five Hot Takes on Sanders’ Victory in the New Hampshire Primary
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Race For Arctic Oil Is Heating Up
  by Lambert Strether 11:42 am

• Links 2/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Another Sign of Social Decay: Seniors Alone, Unable to Care for Themselves
  by Yves Smith 4:40 am

• Subprime Auto Loans Explode, “Serious Delinquencies” Spike to Record. But There’s No Jobs Crisis, These Are the Good Times
  by Yves Smith 1:52 am

• Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
  by Yves Smith 12:34 am

February 11, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/11/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yet More Finance Profiteering: Green Bonds
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/11/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Developing Countries Showing America Up
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Orwell Goes to Iowa
  by Yves Smith 1:15 am

• How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

February 10, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/10/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Most Long-Term Growth Forecasts by Economics Researchers Biased Upwards
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Links 2/10/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• 400 Million Locked Down in China To Fight Coronavirus
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• Stunning Sinn Féin Win Upends Ireland Politics
  by Yves Smith 5:07 am

• A Socialism Equal to the World
  by Yves Smith 2:12 am

February 9, 2020

• Links 2/9/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• ‘Something Big Is Shifting’: As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

February 8, 2020

• Links 2/8/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• This Philadelphia Refinery Is the Country’s Worst Benzene Polluter. Trump Wants To Keep It Open
  by Yves Smith 2:13 am

February 7, 2020

• Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #10 in Manchester, NH
  by Lambert Strether 7:00 pm

• Twitter Is Blocking My Tweets (Updated: Back to Normal)
  by Yves Smith 4:51 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Climate Change Needs To Be on the Balance Sheet
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Two: Profits and Cash Flow Keep Deteriorating as Uber’s GAAP Losses Hit $8.5 Billion
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Sanders Called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘Biggest Corporate Socialist’ – Here’s Why He Has a Point
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Rentier Capitalism: Great for Stocks, Lousy for Growth
  by Yves Smith 4:58 am

February 6, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/6/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/6/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff Asks to Be Released From Prison Under “Compassionate Release,” Igniting Debate Over Fairness
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• Beyond Burnout: Doctors Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures Of Health Care
  by Yves Smith 3:24 am

• Iraq Is on the Brink of an Energy Crisis
  by Yves Smith 2:19 am

February 5, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• War for Fun and Profit
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Brexit: Fish-y Business
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• Coronavirus Starting to Hit Auto Industry Supply Chains
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

• Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders
  by Yves Smith 2:51 am

February 4, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/4/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Obama Helped Make Cars More Efficient, but Now They Spew Black Carbon
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/4/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Iowa, Democrats, and Elite Incompetence
  by Yves Smith 6:06 am

• Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing
  by Yves Smith 4:39 am

• Public Health Officials Offer Scant Details On U.S. Coronavirus Patients
  by Yves Smith 3:05 am

February 3, 2020

• Agency: William Gibson’s Ode to Personal Networking for the Precarious Professional
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/3/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Uninsurable and Unhedgeable’: Central Banks Warn of Financial Crisis from Climate Change
  by Lambert Strether 10:59 am

• Links 2/3/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Coronavirus: Australia Faces Calamity
  by Yves Smith 4:50 am

• Brexit: Warmed Over Chicken
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• Shall We Have a Dallas Meetup Thursday February 13?
  by Yves Smith 4:28 am

February 2, 2020

• China Coronavirus Watch: Transmission Methods, Travel, Potential Mutation, AIDS Connection Debunked
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 2/2/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Climate Change Helped Spawn East Africa’s Locust Crisis
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

February 1, 2020

• Links 2/1/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
  by Yves Smith 4:43 am

• Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am