8 Reasons Why Covid-19 Damage to the Economy Will Be Deep and Lasting
Why the economy is still mighty sick and won’t get much better any time soon.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
More on Frank Partnoy’s Misguided Take on Collateralized Loan Obligations
No, collateralized loan obligations are not about to wipe out banks, and Frank Partnoy should have focused on real risks, like destruction of productive capacity.
Read more...Meritocracy Legitimizes, Deepens Inequality
Why meritocracy ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2020
COVID-19 in Florida ~ 2020 electoral map ~ Biden and Hispanic voters ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Amy McGrath ~ Woke insurance ~ Warehouse demand ~ Restaurant cash crunch ~ Container collapse ~ Stranded crews ~ COVID-19 vaccine ~ Microbiome of the nose ~ Black Lives Matter leaderless ~ The Third Precinct ~ Ruth Wilson Gilmore ~ The Death Star ~ Feral hogs
Read more...Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’
Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...Links 6/17/2020
Automation, Globalisation, and Vanishing Jobs
A new take on how automation and offshoring affect employment.
Read more...Restaurants Face Major Obstacles to Reopening
A recap of why restaurants will have a tough time regaining their footing.
Read more...How the Disappearance of Union Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
How union support boosted black economic and social progress.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2020
COVID-19 by regions (plus New York) ~ Biden veepstakes (Abrams, Bottoms, Demings, Harris, (Susan) Rice, Warren) ~ Chait gets something partially right ~ Retail, manufacturing, debt ~ PG&E “mass killing” ~ Dexamethasone ~ Masks ~ Albuquerque shooting ~ Case-Deaton on COVID ~ Git
Read more...No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?
Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.
Read more...Links 6/16/2020
Some Thoughts on New York City and the Dim Prospects for American Cities
Major cities are in serious trouble and hte outlook is grim.
Read more...Julian Assange Just Called. To Talk About the Pandemic’s Effect on Capitalism & Politics!
Yanis Varoufakis briefs Assange on the devolution of capitailsm.
Read more...Forty Percent of Police Families Experience Domestic Violence, Compared to 10% in the General Population
More evidence of lack of impulse control on behalf of a meaningful number of police officers.
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