A Plague of Locusts, Failed States, and Climate Change
How locusts swarm, create food insecurity, and how climate change means more swarms, absent state intervention.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/17/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, Mac is turning into Windows. I foolishly let my battery run out, and so had to reboot. When I did, my mouse did not work for some reason. Hence, when Apple put up a dialog asking me whether I wanted to upgrade or not, I tabbed to the […]
Read more...Links 2/17/2020
Climate Risks to European Banks: A New Era of Stress Tests
Several European central banks have begun assessing the impact of adverse climate scenarios on banks’ capital. Comparable work at EU or euro area level has evolved more slowly. Supervisors need build up a distinct and more complex type of analysis, and should engage with banks now.
Read more...More Concerns About China’s Coronavirus Economic and Political Downside
How coronavirus is destabilizing China.
Read more...Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
Read more...Links 2/16/2020
A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
Read more...Foreign Exchange Swaps: Hidden Debt, Lurking Vulnerability
How hidden foreign exchange swaps contribute to financial fragility.
Read more...Links 2/15/2020
What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, It’s Never Too Late for the Lobbyists to Win)
Surprise billing is proving awfully hard to kill.
Read more...Believe It or Not, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was Even Worse Than Previously Thought
he legacy of Deepwater Horizon lives on, and not in a good way.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Festival of Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, NV, IA, industrial production, inventories, consumer sentiment, retail sales, Alibaba, Softbank, Tesla, Amtrak, McClatchy, lithium, family offices, Jay Carney and climate, terms-of-service agreements, Valentine’s Day
Read more...The Public’s Right to Know: HA! How Courts and Federal Agencies Stonewall on Citizen Access to Government Information
Summary of some ways the US government de facto restricts access to public information.
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