Today’s Water Cooler: 2019-nCoV and China trade, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Iowa no longer relevant?, Big 4 accounting firms, pharmacy counters, GM robot cars, Google, Uber, Internet of Things, farming, reforestation, R0, Harvard union-busting, SEIU, gentrification, Jeff Bezos
Read more...The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.
Read more...Coronavirus updates.
Read more...Firearm death rates are up on a broad basis in the US, and no one yet seems to know why.
Read more...Consortium News is suing Canada’s NSA for depicting the publisher as part of a Russian cyber-campaign for exposing then Foreign Minsister Chrystia Freeland lying over her history. But has CN undermined its case?
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Here is a second counter for the Iowa Caucus, which is obviously just around the corner: * * […]
Read more...State AGs to meet with DoJ to discuss cooperating in their respective probes into alleged anti-competitive behavior by Google. Will enforcement actions follow? Time will tell.
Read more...Will we drive the Blue Acceleration toward sustainable and equitable trajectories, or will we foul the ocean as we have fouled the land?
Read more...Reports of desperation from what some might consider unlikely quarters: the Pacific Northwest.
Read more...The knives are out. Typical pick: Former Congressman Barney Frank, who wrote an op-ed entitled “Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie.”
Read more...Thousands of the inhabitants of Puerto Rico still huddle in outdoor shelters, and FEMA has yet to approve assisted rent to relocate people.
Read more...Well casing failures are a growing problem for an industry chasing profitability by cutting corners for its shale gas fracking operations.
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