How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
The latest installment in Mikulka’s excellent series, linking the fracking bust to the decimation of the U.S. oil and gas industry.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
DoJ Launches Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart for Opioids Violations
Feds file civil charges against Walmart for opioids violations – eschewing criminal corporate charges even for obvious drug pushing.
Read more...Links 12/27/2020
Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been deficient and disorganized, suffering from flaws that plague the U.S. for-profit health care system.
Read more...Links 12/26/2020
The Fall of Byron and the Oscar Wilding of Johnny Depp
Lord Byron and his fictional ilk came to unseemly ends, which seems fiting punishment for romantic indiscretions. So why are they being written out?
Read more...Rolling Out the Vaccine
More discussion of vaccine policy, such as it is.
Read more...Links 12/25/2020
Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal
Brexit: an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Read more...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”
Larry Summers is at it again.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler Christmas Eve 2020
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Read more...Links 12/24/2020
A Mini-Tour of Christmas/Holiday Feasts and Traditions
Christmas traditions vary considerably. What are the ones in your part of the world like?
Read more...Explaining Fiscal Multipliers, a Stealthy but Important Budget Battleground (Part 1)
Fiscal multipliers, an economic concept often misused to justify austerity, is rearing its head in Beltway budget debates. Time to bone up.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/23/2020
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