Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden (strange inactivity, SuperPAC, Michelle Obama, VP horserace), Sirota on civility, vote by mail, ballot marking devices, Howie Hawkins, employment situation, state budgets, gold, Amazon, #COVID19 (epidemiology, asymptomatic tranmission), time
Read more...CalPERS staff is up to more dirty tricks. Push back by e-mail in public comments. Bad press already has them on the back foot.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls out one of CalPERS CIO Ben Meng’s Big Lies, and unearths an even bigger one.
Read more...It may be simpler to enact a payments holiday than to try to get money to the hands of individuals who desperately need it.
Read more...May Day is around the corner. It seems a fitting time for workers to demand better via a general strike.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden administration personnel, Biden VP, Biden and The Zuckerberg, Biden and AOC, “essential workers,” Hofstadter, bourgeois riots, employment situation, manufacturing, California groundwater, Carnival, the corporate super-spreader, hospital staff cuts, apples, LSD
Read more...Yet another pandemic downside….
Read more...The supposed irresistable force of the economy is losing out to the immovable object of the coronavirus.
Read more...A recap of what Taleb and his fellow complex systems analysts have been saying about coronavirus. Not pretty.
Read more...Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next?
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Obama’s Biden endorsement, Warren endorses Biden (Obama, Geithner), AOC interview, Sanders post mortems, Democrats and the bailout, retail, manufacturing, wheat, Amazon, Boeing, GM, #COVID19 (testing, drug evaluation, class), instant karma, citizen science
Read more...Quelle surprise! Big banks in the UK don’t like making small business loans, especially not at 1.5%.
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