Monthly Archives: April 2021

April 30, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Social Tipping Points and Forecasting Norms Changes
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/30/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How Dodgy Government Accounting Fueled Rapid Rise of Federal Student Loans
  by Yves Smith 6:44 am

• A Lifetime “at War”
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
  by Yves Smith 4:51 am

April 29, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Shhhh, They’re Listening – Inside the Coming Voice-Profiling Revolution
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/29/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Private Equity and Hedge Fund Barons Having a Hissy Over Carried Interest Grift Because Biden Isn’t Staying Bought
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

• Major Parties’ Climate Programs Are Miles Apart
  by Yves Smith 4:44 am

• Why Workers Memorial Day Is a National Call to Action
  by Yves Smith 12:30 am

April 28, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/28/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Biden’s Request for More Education Funding Would Shift More Power to the Federal Government
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/28/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Even Credentialed Young People Pessimistic About Their Futures
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• Abolish the OCC
  by Yves Smith 3:59 am

• We Really Do Need to Rethink the Economics of Saving, Most of Which Is Nonsense
  by Yves Smith 1:53 am

April 27, 2021

• Closing Hours of 2021 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/27/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Corporate Food Takeover
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/27/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Mexico’s AMLO Locks Horns With Business Elite As Make-or-Break Elections Loom
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• The Idiotic Saga of the New York Times Cooking Community
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• The Ugly Truth About Renewable Power
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

April 26, 2021

• Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Announcing 2021 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!
  by Lambert Strether 7:26 am

• California Judiciary Committee Gives Blistering Assessment of CalPERS’ Fiduciary Duty Failings in Analysis of Fraud-Friendly Private Debt Secrecy Bill
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Links 4/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• China Has a Grand Carbon Neutrality Target But Where Is the Plan?
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

• Safe Speech vs Free Speech: Higher Education’s False Dilemma
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

April 25, 2021

• Why George W. Bush Was a Horrible President
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• Links 4/25/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Voice of Monetary Policy
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

April 24, 2021

• Links 4/24/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

• From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network Podcast, April 2021
  by Yves Smith 3:09 am

April 23, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Money Alone Can’t Fix Central America – or Stop Migration to US
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/23/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle on Money-Lust, 399-380 BC
  by Yves Smith 6:19 am

• Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy
  by Yves Smith 3:48 am

• Ilargi: Ukraine Warheads
  by Yves Smith 12:42 am

April 22, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/22/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Coronavirus Crisis Within the Economy Is Far From Over – Because Reopening Creates a Whole New Type of Risk
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/22/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• CalPERS Employee Accused of Embezzling $685,000 from Beneficiary Bank and CalPERS Accounts Hasn’t Been Arrested, Much the Less Prosecuted. Why the Cover Up?
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers
  by Yves Smith 4:01 am

• Privacy Champions Urge Passage of ‘Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale’ Act
  by Yves Smith 3:44 am

April 21, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/21/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Softer Monetary Policy Increases Inequality
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/21/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Competition Heats Up in the Melting Arctic, and the US Isn’t Prepared to Counter Russia
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• Another False Start in Africa Sold with Gates Foundation Green Revolution Myths
  by Yves Smith 12:57 am

April 20, 2021

• Jury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty of Second Degree Murder, Third Degree Murder and Second Degree Manslaughter in George Floyd Trial
  by Yves Smith 5:10 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/20/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Shock and Reality of Catching Covid After Being Vaccinated
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/20/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Europe’s Eminence Grise, BlackRock, Is Helping to Write Europe’s Sustainable Banking Rules. What Could Go Wrong?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Latest Filings in Devastating Lawsuit Against Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and Bayer Board Members and Executives Over Disastrous Monsanto Acquisition
  by Yves Smith 4:52 am

• Covid Is Hitting Workers Differently Than the Financial Crisis
  by Yves Smith 12:50 am

April 19, 2021

• Opioids Crisis: Trial of Four Drugmakers Begins in California
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/19/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/19/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The CDC’s VAERS and Vaccine Complications: The System is Broken
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is ‘Past Time’ to Finally Close Guantánamo
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• US Security Analysts Tackle Shape-Shifting Threats With… More of the Same
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

April 18, 2021

• Take the Train: France Moves to Ban Short-Haul Domestic Flights
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:25 pm

• Links 4/18/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• How Taiwan Beat COVID-19 – New Study Reveals Clues to its Success
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

April 17, 2021

• Links 4/17/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Applications for New Businesses Have a Double-WTF Moment
  by Yves Smith 5:02 am

• Welcome to the Age of Hysteria
  by Yves Smith 4:21 am

April 16, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/16/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Prolonged Brain Dysfunction in COVID-19 Survivors: A Pandemic in its Own Right?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/16/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Case for WikiSearch, a Wikipedia Search Engine
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• How China Is Offering an Alternative to the IMF
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

April 15, 2021

• Daunte Wright’s Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets
  by Yves Smith 11:57 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/15/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Inflation in the Aftermath of Wars and Pandemics
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/15/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Pricey Learning Pods Are Now Helping Vulnerable Students. Will the Trend Survive the Pandemic?
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Whither AOC?
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

April 14, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/14/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/14/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Why Work at Home Is Not Likely to Thrive After the Covid Era
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

• Slaughter Central: The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
  by Yves Smith 1:13 am

April 13, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/13/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Only Multilateral Cooperation Can Stop Harmful Tax Competition
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• 7 Reasons Why a Vaccine Passport (Pass, Certificate or Whatever They Want to Call It) Should Give Us Pause
  by Nick Corbishley 6:55 am

• Links 4/13/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?
  by Yves Smith 5:32 am

• What is the Bullshit Economy?
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

April 12, 2021

• Why Joe Biden Does Not Remind Me of FDR
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• It’s Time For a Green Social Contract
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 4/12/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The War Nerd: Taiwan — The Thucydides Trapper Who Cried Woof
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Expose at Pennsylvania’s Biggest Public Pension Fund Reveals Lavish Private Equity Travel, But Misses How It Serves as a Bribe
  by Yves Smith 5:29 am

April 11, 2021

• Welcome to the Wonderful World of Tardigrades (Our World)
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• Links 4/11/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Measuring Human Capital: Learning Matters More than Schooling
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

April 10, 2021

• Links 4/10/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson Asks Our Readers: If Democracy Winds Up Creating Financial Dominance, What Do We Call China?
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Prince Philip Was the Godfather of Anglo-British Nationalism
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

April 9, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/9/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Trump Remains at the Heart of the Republican Party
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 4/9/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• FTC, Where Art Thou?: Appliance Manufacturers Routinely Invalidate Warranties if Customers Use Third-Party Repair Services
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Yellen Calls for Taxing Large Corporations on Puffed Up Earnings they Report to Shareholders, Which I Called for Years Ago
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

April 8, 2021

• Why Does the United States Ignore the Possibility of Using Sniffer Dogs to Detect Covid in Mass Settings?
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• Fact-Checking is Dead, Killed by Snopes over Biden’s Broken Promise of $2,000 Checks
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/8/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/8/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Revealed: The Climate-Conflicted Directors Leading the World’s Top Banks
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Despite Federal Moratorium, Increasing Number of Texas Renters Face Eviction as State Protection Expires
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

April 7, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/7/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Mitch McConnell to U.S. Business: Stay Out of Politics – But Keep Those Contributions Coming
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 4/7/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Marcus Rashford Promotes Healthy Start
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:57 am

• IMF, World Bank Must Support Developing Countries’ Recovery
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:45 am

• New COVID Variants Have Changed the Game, and Vaccines Will Not Be Enough. We Need Global ‘Maximum Suppression
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

April 6, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/6/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• What Covid Means for the Athlete’s Heart
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/6/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Fallout from Greensill Collapse Splatters British Government, As Taxpayers Face Big Losses
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech
  by Yves Smith 5:08 am

• FBI Investigating Reporting Fraud at $62 Billion Pennsylvania Public Pension Fund, PSERS; Returns Allegedly Falsified to Avoid Increased Worker Contributions
  by Yves Smith 2:56 am

April 5, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/5/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• New York Joins Pot Party
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 4/5/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Why India is Banking on Health Diplomacy to Grow African Footprint
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Martin Luther King’s America Redux: “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
  by Yves Smith 12:44 am

April 4, 2021

• Italy Bans Cruise Ships from Entering Venice’s Historic Center
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:55 pm

• Links 4/4/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

April 3, 2021

• Links 4/3/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why the Government Bonds Owned by the Bank of England Are Not a Debt Burden, Even When They’re Repaid
  by Yves Smith 6:18 am

• QE During the “Everything Mania”: Fed’s Assets at $7.7 Trillion, Up $3.5 Trillion in 13 months
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

April 2, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The ‘Roaring Twenties’ and Covid Recovery: Revisiting the Evidence for Europe
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/2/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Good Friday Special: Marcelito Pomoy – The Prayer
  by Yves Smith 6:34 am

• Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
  by Yves Smith 5:08 am

• China and US: Stumbling into War?
  by Yves Smith 1:33 am

April 1, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Twitter and YouTube Manipulation in Trial of Derek Chauvin for the Death of George Floyd?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/1/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• LACERS Board Member Lambastes Lousy Private Equity Returns as More Studies Confirm Poor Performance for Decades
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am

• Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
  by Yves Smith 3:04 am