Monthly Archives: December 2020

December 31, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/31/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/31/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

• Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack
  by Yves Smith 2:14 am

December 30, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/30/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/30/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• 4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar
  by Yves Smith 4:50 am

December 29, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/29/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/29/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Wall Street Mega-Landlord Blackstone Prepares to Reap the Spoils of Another Crisis
  by Nick Corbishley 6:31 am

• Polarization, Then a Crash: Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

December 28, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/28/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Alaska Tribes, Conservation Groups, and Businesses Sue to Save the Tongass National Forest
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 12/28/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

December 27, 2020

• DoJ Launches Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart for Opioids Violations
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 12/27/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

December 26, 2020

• Links 12/26/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Fall of Byron and the Oscar Wilding of Johnny Depp
  by Yves Smith 1:38 am

• Rolling Out the Vaccine
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

December 25, 2020

• Links 12/25/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Larry Summers’ Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic: “Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound”
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

December 24, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler Christmas Eve 2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/24/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• A Mini-Tour of Christmas/Holiday Feasts and Traditions
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Explaining Fiscal Multipliers, a Stealthy but Important Budget Battleground (Part 1)
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

December 23, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/23/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Secular ‘Values Voters’ Are Becoming an Electoral Force in the US – Just Look Closely at 2020’s Results
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/23/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why Are Shootings Up in New York City? We Asked Four People on the Front Lines
  by Yves Smith 5:34 am

• Someone Should Ask Biden Cabinet Candidate Ursula Burns If She Supports Child Labor in Africa
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

• Holiday-Year End Schedule and Comments Holiday
  by Yves Smith 2:15 am

December 22, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/22/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Will Trump Pardon Himself? Why the Hell Not?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 12/22/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Who Loses Out From Covid-Induced Changes in Buying Patterns?
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

• A Tale of Two Elections: U.S. and Bolivia
  by Yves Smith 3:45 am

December 21, 2020

• A Document Maven Looks at the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/21/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Controversial ‘Spy Tech’ Firm Palantir Lands £23m NHS Data Deal
  by Lambert Strether 11:49 am

• Links 12/21/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
  by Yves Smith 5:34 am

• Antitrust Spring
  by Yves Smith 5:29 am

December 20, 2020

• New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• Links 12/20/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Wolf Richter: Who Holds the $1.65 Trillion of Apartment Building Debt amid Eviction Bans and Plunging Occupancy Rates at High Rises?
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

December 19, 2020

• Links 12/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
  by Yves Smith 3:19 am

• SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

• We Are Fourteen Years Old
  by Yves Smith 2:19 am

December 18, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/18/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
  by Yves Smith 5:26 am

• Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Brexit: End of the Line
  by Yves Smith 4:40 am

December 17, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/17/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/17/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Further Discussion of the Red Flags in the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

• Americans’ Hunger During the Coronavirus Pandemic – Here’s What’s Happening in Los Angeles County
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

December 16, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/16/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
  by Yves Smith 5:08 am

• Market Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 4:07 am

December 15, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/15/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• John le Carré Was a 21st Century Writer
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/15/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• City of London Frets About Life After 2020
  by Nick Corbishley 6:31 am

• More CO2 in the Atmosphere Hurts Key Plants and Crops More Than It Helps
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

December 14, 2020

• An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
  by Yves Smith 2:01 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 12/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Authoritative Consultant Slams Private Equity in Journal Article: Cheap Index Funds and In House Buys Beat PE Funds
  by Yves Smith 5:57 am

• Pain: The Next Public Health Challenge
  by Lambert Strether 5:35 am

• Macroeconomics, Money (MMT Style) and Post-Brexit Recovery, All in One Twitter thread
  by Yves Smith 3:49 am

December 13, 2020

• Clouds, Cloud Formation, Climate, and the Precautionary Principle
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• Links 12/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• It’s the Index, Stupid! Our New Not-So-Neutral Financial Market Arbiters
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

December 12, 2020

• Links 12/12/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Robert McChesney: The Decline of American Journalism
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

• The Failure of the Public Health Establishment
  by Yves Smith 2:46 am

December 11, 2020

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

• Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• On the Demise of Universities
  by Yves Smith 4:33 am

• Medical System Cracking: New Rochelle Nurses Strike Over Unsafe Staffing Levels; Washington State Warns of Potential for “Catastrophic Loss of Medical Care”
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• It’s Time to Break Up Britain
  by Yves Smith 3:59 am

December 10, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/10/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Polarized Pandemic Response and Covid-19 Connectedness Across US States
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/10/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Morag Maclean, R.I.P.
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company
  by Yves Smith 5:18 am

• ‘95% Effective’ May Not Mean What You Think It Means
  by Yves Smith 12:41 am

December 9, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Jamie Galbraith: How Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers Reinforce a Destructive, Debunked Mainstream Paradigm to Support Deficit Spending
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/9/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• Medicare Blues
  by Yves Smith 5:40 am

• Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
  by Yves Smith 12:33 am

December 8, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/8/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• CalPERS Employees Beware: Don’t Fill Out Non-Confidential Survey Jiggered to Falsely Boost Executive Bonuses
  by Yves Smith 10:12 am

• Links 12/8/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities
  by Yves Smith 5:51 am

December 7, 2020

• R.I.P The University, b. 1088, d. 2020, of Covid
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Demand for COVID Vaccines Expected to Get Heated — And Fast
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Links 12/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Judge Slams Apollo for Making Investors Pay for Partner’s Bogus Personal Expenses; Clueless SEC Missed the Abuse, Maybe Because Paul Weiss Misled Them
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

• Business and Related Restrictions Appear to Curb COVID-19 Fatality Growth, But Some Do Not
  by Yves Smith 4:54 am

December 6, 2020

• Privatized Regulators and Corrupt Corporations Caused Deadly Grenfell Tower Fire, Now Threaten Collapse of UK Housing Market through “Cladding Crisis”
  by Lambert Strether 6:24 pm

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

• What Is Exploitation in the Context of ‘Modern Slavery’? A Legal Proposal
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

December 5, 2020

• Links 12/5/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth on Democrats Trying to Please Too Many Money Masters at Once
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• The Jobs Report is a Mess, December Will Be Messier
  by Yves Smith 2:52 am

December 4, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Green Growth vs Degrowth: Are We Missing the Point?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/4/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Women and the Middle-Aged Taking Brunt of Covid Employment Losses
  by Yves Smith 5:35 am

• Brexit: Stumbling
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

• NYC Landlords Suing Pandemic-Slammed Small Businesses by the Hundreds for Missed Rent
  by Yves Smith 2:11 am

December 3, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/3/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Capitalist Systems and Income Inequality
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/3/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Brexit: The Barnier Cliff
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong
  by Nick Corbishley 6:31 am

• As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
  by Yves Smith 4:04 am

December 2, 2020

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

• Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• Big Banks Grow Bigger and Smaller Banks Disappear, As Mergers Return to Crisis-Hit Eurozone
  by Nick Corbishley 6:30 am

• How Do You Combat Information Overreach?
  by Yves Smith 5:09 am

• Are “Net-Zero” Emissions a Smoke Screen?
  by Yves Smith 12:58 am

December 1, 2020

• Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK
  by Yves Smith 3:42 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/1/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/1/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Another Blow to Private Equity: “You Can Pick Winners” Again Shown To Be a Fool’s Game
  by Yves Smith 4:12 am

• Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
  by Yves Smith 12:17 am