Monthly Archives: May 2021

May 31, 2021

• It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: COVID-19 Gooses Local On-Line Shopping and Home Delivery Options
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 5/31/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Dominic Cummings: How the UK Ignored Evidence That the Virus is Airborne
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Holiday Schedule and Reader Notice
  by Yves Smith 1:51 am

May 30, 2021

• Will Biden Pack the Supreme Court?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 5/30/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

May 29, 2021

• Links 5/29/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Bob Pollin: Modest Inflation Is Good for Workers
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• The Origin of the Gender Gap
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

May 28, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘This Is the Price of War’: Israeli Newspaper Publishes Photos of All 67 Palestinian Children Killed in Gaza Onslaught
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/28/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• When Is a Co-Op Not a Co-Op? When Vested Interests in California Want to Keep Platform Workers From Having Power
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Real American Men and the Liberal War on Meat
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• What if Large Businesses Are Really Macroeconomic Entities?
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

May 27, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/27/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Amid a Pandemic, a Health Care Algorithm Shows Promise and Peril
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/27/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Federal Judge Nixes Proposed Monsanto Glysophate Settlement, Deepening Black Hole for Bayer
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Larry Summers Doubles Down On His Inflation Prediction
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Outback
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am

May 26, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How Enforcement of the USMCA Will End a Corporate Race to the Bottom
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Support for Gig Worker Union Bill in New York Collapsing After Scrutiny
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

• A Neoliberalism Meets Covid Vignette: Barriers to Getting a Vaccine, Publix Edition
  by Yves Smith 3:47 am

• Why Biden Is Not a Transformational President
  by Yves Smith 12:18 am

May 25, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Michael Hudson: Why Biden Won’t Cancel Student Debt
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/25/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• “I Don’t Know of a Bigger Story in the World” Right Now Than Ivermectin: NY Times Best-Selling Author
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• West’s Selective Support for Press Freedom: Only in Countries We Don’t Like
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Despite Federal Moratorium, Eviction Rates Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels
  by Yves Smith 1:40 am

May 24, 2021

• CDC Recommends Masking for School Staff, Accepts Aerosol Transmission (Without Using the Word)
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 5/24/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Crypto Crackdown: Only the Beginning?
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• How Redistribution Makes America Richer
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 am

• Israel-Gaza Clash: Conflict of Narratives, Victory of Remote Warfare
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

May 23, 2021

• Beavers, the Landscape, Carbon, Methane, and Climate Change
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• Links 5/23/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• In the Tales Told by Sewage, Public Health and Privacy Collide
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

May 22, 2021

• Links 5/22/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The War That Israel Lost
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

• Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry
  by Yves Smith 2:05 am

• Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Percussion
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

May 21, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/21/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/21/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Bees and Bluebells: Celebrating World Bee Day By Encouraging Pollinators in My Garden
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• As Covid Ravages Poor Nations, Pharma Vaccine Profiteering Has Created 9 New Billionaires
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

May 20, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/20/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/20/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:57 am

• Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 am

May 19, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/19/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/19/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• An Indictment of US Covid Policy
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

• Can We Have Both Industrial Civilization and a Habitable Planet?
  by Yves Smith 12:51 am

• War as the Enemy of Reform: Biden’s Dilemma or His Excuse?
  by Yves Smith 12:21 am

May 18, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/18/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• 9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/18/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• More Bad Omens for Business Travel, As WEF Axes Tropical Davos and Mobile World Congress Suffers Wave of Cancellations
  by Nick Corbishley 6:49 am

• How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
  by Yves Smith 5:48 am

• Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
  by Yves Smith 5:29 am

May 17, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 5/17/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• No Matter How Powerful Israel’s Military Becomes, It Still Can’t Win
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

May 16, 2021

• Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly
  by Yves Smith 9:45 pm

• New Adventures in Gardening: Urban Composting
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 5/16/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:58 am

• Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

May 15, 2021

• Links 5/15/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Bill Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (Part 1/9)
  by Yves Smith 6:36 am

• Revealed: Big Pharma’s Plot to Derail US Covid-19 Vaccine Waiver
  by Yves Smith 5:33 am

• Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Belshazzar’s Feast
  by Yves Smith 2:28 am

May 14, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Book Review: A Ground-Level Look at America’s Health Care System
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/14/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• CalPERS Long-Term Care Program Bleeds Policyholders Dry via 10X Higher Premiums, Gross Mismanagement, Bad Faith Dealing
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• Iran To Saudi Arabia: Sell Our Oil And We Will Reduce Houthi Attacks
  by Yves Smith 12:22 am

May 13, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• A Night Under the Bombs in Gaza
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/13/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization
  by Yves Smith 4:28 am

May 12, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/12/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• UK Company Law and Tax Enforcement Is So Bad It’s Almost as if the Government Wanted to Encourage Tax Abuse
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/12/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19
  by Yves Smith 4:36 am

• Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
  by Yves Smith 3:27 am

• Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters
  by Yves Smith 1:09 am

May 11, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/11/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• From Rodney King to George Floyd, How Video Evidence Can Be Differently Interpreted in Courts
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/11/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Bayer-Monsanto Fails (At First Attempt) to Block Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and Ban on GMO Corn
  by Nick Corbishley 6:31 am

• Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”
  by Yves Smith 3:40 am

• How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class
  by Yves Smith 1:24 am

May 10, 2021

• WHO, CDC Throw in the Towel on Covid Aerosol Transmission, Biden Administration Seems Oblivious
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide
  by Lambert Strether 12:02 pm

• Links 5/10/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• CDC Chooses to Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases
  by Yves Smith 1:04 am

• Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Imagining An End to Poverty and Economic Dependence
  by Yves Smith 12:12 am

May 9, 2021

• Kelp, Trophic Cascades, and Climate
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• Links 5/9/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

May 8, 2021

• Links 5/8/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

• Is This the Beginning of the End for Labour?
  by Yves Smith 5:24 am

• Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Taking an Irish Turn
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

May 7, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/7/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Bank Shot: Financial Giants’ Return to Manhattan Gives Smaller Businesses Hope
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/7/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Reducing Methane Is Crucial for Protecting Climate and Health, and It Can Pay for Itself – Yet Emissions Are Still Rising Fast, A New UN Report Warns
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• The Tattered Histories of Possible Future Ambassadors….Like Rahm Emanuel
  by Yves Smith 1:42 am

May 6, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/6/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/6/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Seychelles, World’s Most Vaccinated Country, Hit by Covid Surge….Including Among the Vaccinated
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

• Why Rich Parents Have Rich Children
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

• Michel Barnier’s Brexit Diaries Published; Stinging Take of UK Strategic and Negotiating
  by Yves Smith 4:26 am

May 5, 2021

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

• California Bill Seeks to Prevent Hospital Administrators from Practicing Medicine Without a License
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/5/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Dan Walters, Dean of Sacramento Columnists, Blasts CalPERS’ Corruption-Friendly Secret Lending Bill
  by Yves Smith 6:44 am

• Jared Holst: Getting Kinky for the Sake of Data
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• When Big Green Meets Big Money: The Nature Conservancy Caught Greenwashing Corporate Pollution
  by Yves Smith 12:40 am

May 4, 2021

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

• Covid ‘Doesn’t Discriminate by Age’: Serious Cases on the Rise in Younger Adults
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• India Just Became Latest Country to Approve Use of Ivermectin to Treat Covid-19
  by Nick Corbishley 6:58 am

• Links 5/4/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Plaintiffs in Kentucky Retirement System Pension Case Expose Flagrant Corruption in Hiring of Tainted Attorney Regina Calcaterra, Best Known for Sabotaging New York Anti-Corruption Commission
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• Michael Hudson Q&A in Webinar on 4000 Years of Money and Debt
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

May 3, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EU Proposes Opening to Fully Vaccinated Non-Essential Travelers; The Catch: Proving Vaccine Status
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 5/3/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:57 am

• New Malaria Vaccine Proves Highly Effective – and COVID Shows How Quickly It Could Be Deployed
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Webinar with Michael Hudson: A 4000-Year Perspective on Economy, Money and Debt
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• Clarification of Spending/Inflation Constraints According to Modern Monetary Theory
  by Yves Smith 2:02 am

• So Much For May Day
  by Yves Smith 1:43 am

May 2, 2021

• Mamata Banerjee’s TMC Retains West Bengal, Shutting Out Modi’s BJP from Taking Power in the State
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:55 pm

• Links 5/2/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Biden Urged to Stand ‘On the Side of Humanity’ and Back Waiver for Covid Vaccine Patents
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

May 1, 2021

• Links 5/1/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Mark Blyth – An Inflated Fear of Inflation?
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• American Cities Have Long Struggled to Reform Their Police – but Isolated Success Stories Suggest Community and Officer Buy-In Might Be Key
  by Yves Smith 6:49 am

• Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Dimash Qudaibergen
  by Yves Smith 2:13 am