2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: “Nearly half of the Q1 decline in GDP can be attributed to healthcare, which is presumably delaying of elective procedures.” Can this be true?
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Links 4/29/2020
Schadenfraude Alert: Airbnb Mini-Moguls in Meltdown as Bookings Collapse
Once fat and happy Airbnb landlords are now in a world of hurt.
Read more...‘No Consequences for Negligence That Kills’: McConnell Wants Corporate Immunity From Covid-19 Lawsuits
Not content with pursuing pro-business judicial nominations alone, Mitch McConnell seeks to circumscribe corporate COVID-19 legal liability.
Read more...Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same
An overview of the dislocations in the oil market.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/28/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
Read more...Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress
How hopes for coronavirus tests are ahead of the state of play.
Read more...Links 4/28/2020
Quarantine Cat Tricks
Cat intermission.
Read more...Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.
Read more...In a Slap in the Face to Progressives, Biden Appoints Larry Summers, a “Literal Architect of Neoliberalism,” to Economic Advisory Role
If you need proof that Biden doesn’t give a damn about oridinary people, his bringing Larry Summers in from political exile should convince you.
Read more...#COVID19 Lockdowns, the Reopen Protests, and Wage Labor
Pandemics and TINA.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/27/2020
I don’t feel like writing a post summary today, so I won’t. Take that, Google.
Read more...No Alternative to Sustainable Agriculture: How Community-Supported Farms Show the Way to Food Security in an Uncertain World
One of the areas in which we are least prepared for the many complex challenges surrounding us is in our relationship to food.
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