Saharan Dust Storm Expected To Cause Dangerous Air Pollution in U.S. This Week
Jeff Masters tellls you everything you want to know about a dust strorm set to drift over the US
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
America Sits on Its Hands as Covid-19 Cases Rise
More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.
Read more...Massive Credit Losses to Hit European Banks in Q2 and into 2021, Particularly When Debt Moratoriums Are Lifted
Keeping tabs on the wobbly state of EU banks.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/23/2020
COVID-19 in swing states, testing, Houston in trouble ~ Biden veep stakes: Karen Bass? ~ Biden’s hawkishness ~ Sanders agonidpol ~ DNC wants more money from Sanders ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Michigan dead heat ~ Neera Tanden ~ Housing, manufacturing ~ Savings ~ Fireworks companies ~ College football ~ Wokeness ~ Zinn, Chomsky on Tolkien
Read more...The Hidden Deaths Of The COVID Pandemic
Why the Covid-19 death toll is higher than you might think.
Read more...Links 6/23/2020
Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?
A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
Read more...Board Member Margaret Brown Sues CalPERS, Board President Over Gang-Style Retaliation for Efforts to Oppose Its Incompetence
Board member Margaret Brown has finally had it with CalPERS’ dirty tricks.
Read more...Who Benefits From New Technologies?
Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely?
Read more...Dogpiling Taibbi and the Dearth of the Free Press
A cri de couer on sorting the news
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/22/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...The Economy Isn’t About Money. It’s About Putting Food on the Table
Our Enlightenment predecessors recognized not one but five economies – and the pandemic has reinvigorated our taste for them.
Read more...Links 6/22/2020
Grim Prospects for New York City as Few Office Workers Return Post Lockdown; How Hard Will Other US Cities Be Hit?
An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City.
Read more...Who Pays for Stranded Assets? Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For 100-Year Old Oil Wells
Why shuttering oil wells is a physical, economic, and political mess.
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