Monthly Archives: November 2020

November 30, 2020

• Obama’s Promised Land: Obama Wept (Two Episodes from Campaign 2008)
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t
  by Lambert Strether 11:52 am

• Links 11/30/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Can’t Do America: Kick the Can Approach to Public Pension Fund Crisis, Even Though Canada Cleaned Up Its Mess
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• The Scarring Effect of COVID-19: Youth Unemployment in Europe
  by Yves Smith 2:04 am

November 29, 2020

• Obama’s Promised Land: Come for the Droning, Stay for the Erasures
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• Links 11/29/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain
  by Lambert Strether 5:48 am

November 28, 2020

• Links 11/28/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am

• Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

November 27, 2020

• Links 11/27/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
  by Yves Smith 2:37 am

• The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
  by Yves Smith 12:47 am

November 26, 2020

• Links 11/26/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Forgotten Thanksgiving
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• Nathan Tankus: What the Hell is Going On With CARES Act “Funds”?
  by Yves Smith 2:24 am

November 25, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Cheaper than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Doesn’t Require Supercold Temperature
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Coming Deadly Covid Winter
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

• Thanksgiving Schedule and Comments Holiday
  by Yves Smith 4:42 am

• What Would a State-Owned Amazon Look Like? Ask Argentina
  by Yves Smith 1:53 am

November 24, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/24/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
  by Yves Smith 8:05 am

• Links 11/24/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Brexit: Decisions
  by Yves Smith 3:00 am

• Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am

November 23, 2020

• What Connects Grenfell Tower, Dams on the Mekong, and a Shortage of Glass Vials for Covid Vaccines? Sand!
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How to Move Beyond Utopian Socialism and Libertarianism
  by Lambert Strether 12:15 pm

• Links 11/23/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Michael Olenick: How Biden Could Tackle the Student Loan Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

• The Mnuchin-Powell Affair Over the Fed’s “Special Purpose Vehicles” in Dollars & Effects
  by Yves Smith 4:50 am

November 22, 2020

• College Presidents Fail to Mobilize to Protect Students from Covid-19
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 pm

• Links 11/22/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Regulating Fintech in Europe: Lessons from the Collapse of Wirecard
  by Lambert Strether 5:50 am

November 21, 2020

• Links 11/21/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Reply from Authors of “To Save the Economy, Save People First” Regarding “Lockdowns Work”
  by Yves Smith 6:21 am

• Don’t Depend on Wall Street for Renewable Energy Investment
  by Yves Smith 4:19 am

• The Impact of the New Asian Trade Mega-Deal on the European Union
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

November 20, 2020

• Insurance Companies Flag “Driver Disengagement” as Factor in Robot Car Safety
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/20/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Fear of Flying Is a COVID-Era Conundrum
  by Lambert Strether 11:42 am

• Links 11/20/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• To Save the Economy, Save People First: Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

November 19, 2020

• Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
  by Lambert Strether 4:34 pm

• Loneliness, Happiness, and Love in Times of Covid-19
  by Lambert Strether 4:20 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family’: GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:25 am

• Reader Notice: Comment Moderation Delays
  by Yves Smith 10:33 am

• Links 11/19/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Wolf Richter: No Payment, No Problem: In Rosy World of Forbearance, Official Delinquencies Plunge, Credit Scores of Delinquent Borrowers Jump
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

November 18, 2020

• Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/18/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Boeing 737 MAX Cleared to Fly Again, Amidst Plummeting Demand for Air Travel and Aircraft as a Result of COVID-19
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 11/18/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:57 am

• Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Other America: The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 am

November 17, 2020

• “Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 8:30 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/17/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Mitch McConnell Flouts the Will of the American People
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 11/17/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:57 am

• Nick Corbishley: Bankruptcy Looms As Cash-Starved UK Local Councils’ High-Risk Real Estate Bets Sour
  by Yves Smith 5:44 am

• COVID-19 Compounding Inequalities
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:35 am

November 16, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/16/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 11/16/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:57 am

• A Letter from Nanea to Yves Smith About CalPERS’ Strange $1.5 Billion Deal with LongRange Capital
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• The War Nerd: Gray Wolves — The Fascists Nobody Wants To Talk About
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Feeling Disoriented By the Election, Pandemic and Everything Else? It’s Called ‘Zozobra’ — And Mexican Philosophers Have Some Advice
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 am

November 15, 2020

• Save the Birds: Study Adds to Calls to Ban Dogs from Beaches During Shorebird Nesting Season
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 11/15/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

November 14, 2020

• Links 11/14/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
  by Yves Smith 3:33 am

November 13, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• 2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats
  by Yves Smith 4:27 am

• Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
  by Yves Smith 12:51 am

November 12, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Home Health Aide Services for the Elderly as a Lemon Market
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread
  by Yves Smith 6:22 am

• What Did You Miss While You Were Following the US Elections?
  by Yves Smith 5:47 am

November 11, 2020

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

• Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
  by Yves Smith 7:01 am

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

• The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• Unions Raise Worker Wellbeing
  by Yves Smith 3:11 am

• James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance
  by Yves Smith 1:51 am

November 10, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/10/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Language of Slavery
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/10/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil 75 Years Ago Continue to Seek Justice
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

• Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief?
  by Yves Smith 1:46 am

November 9, 2020

• “What It Took”: The Price of Democrat Victory in 2020
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/9/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• What to Know as ACA Heads to Supreme Court — Again
  by Lambert Strether 11:35 am

• Links 11/9/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Is Fear of AOC Why Chuck Schumer Is Pumping a Non-Starter “Cancel Student Debt by Executive Order” Scheme?
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• The Collateral Damage to Children’s Education During Lockdown
  by Yves Smith 2:35 am

November 8, 2020

• All About Exit Polls (with a Plea for Caution and Reporting)
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 pm

• Links 11/8/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Replacing Rentier Capitalism Is One of the Defining Challenges of Our Age
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

November 7, 2020

• Links 11/7/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Whining Pundits
  by Yves Smith 3:53 am

• Jobs Picture Emerges of Weird Recovery to Historically Awful Level
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

November 6, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/6/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Why Google Is Facing Serious Accusations of Monopoly Practices
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• Michael Hudson on Financialization and Deindustrialization
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Trump’s Pennsylvania Lawsuits Invoke Bush v. Gore – But the Supreme Court Probably Won’t Decide the 2020 Election
  by Yves Smith 5:11 am

• Americans Didn’t Vote for Change. For Many, It Wasn’t on the Ballot
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

November 5, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 11/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Outsourcing: A Personal Window on the Rise of Grifting
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• New Jersey’s “Best in US” Plastic Ban Still Very Limited, Makes Concessions
  by Yves Smith 5:52 am

• China Takes Step Against Securitization, Consumer Borrowing With Suspension of Ant IPO
  by Yves Smith 4:41 am

• How Kurdistan Is Taking Advantage Of Iraq’s Oil Crisis
  by Yves Smith 12:12 am

November 4, 2020

• 2:00PM Election Day Water Cooler 11/4/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Covid-19 Is Increasing Support for Social Spending
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/4/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Other Eviction Moratorium: Storefront and Office Tenants are Hanging on. But for How Long?
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Six Charts That Reveal America’s Deep Divides
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• Musical Interlude: “One Day More” from Les Miserables
  by Yves Smith 2:37 am

November 3, 2020

• 2020 Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread
  by Lambert Strether 7:00 pm

• 2:00PM Election Day Water Cooler 11/3/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Notes Toward a Definition of the Democrat Party
  by Lambert Strether 1:04 pm

• How Lack of Wealth Is a Wage Trap
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/3/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• McKinsey, Deloitte Charge Big Bucks to States for Botched Covid Projects
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Trump or Biden, Trade Deals Still Threaten Britain’s NHS
  by Yves Smith 3:31 am

• Affluent Authoritarianism: New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy
  by Yves Smith 1:53 am

November 2, 2020

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

• Voting Turnout: Three Simple Ways to Get Out the Vote
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• 11/2/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• As the World Watches US Election, the Appeal of America is Diminished
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• One Trump Voter Explains Why Trump Will Win
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

• Stop Girdling the Post Office
  by Yves Smith 12:10 am

November 1, 2020

• Plastic Watch: Plastic Pushers Seek to Use Trade Negotiations to Rescind Plastic Bans
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 11/1/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Indian Pharma is Being Squeezed – and It’s Bad News for Drug Access in Developing Countries
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am