Monthly Archives: August 2021

August 31, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/31/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/31/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• “We Will No Longer Sell Crude Abroad”: Mexican President AMLO
  by Nick Corbishley 6:57 am

• EXPOSED: How CalPERS Tried and Continues to Try to Cover Up Former Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng’s Misconduct
  by Yves Smith 3:52 am

• ‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
  by Yves Smith 12:30 am

August 30, 2021

• The Fragility of the New York City Subway System
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/30/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Global Weather Disruptions, Food Commodity Prices, and Economic Activity: A Global Warning For Advanced Countries
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 8/30/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Board Member David Miller Takes CalPERS-Paid Vacation by Abdicating Oversight, Obstructing Board Members Doing Their Job
  by Yves Smith 3:56 am

• Ida’s Landfall Imminent, Disaster Expert General Russel Honoré Says Time to Declare Climate Emergency
  by Yves Smith 3:50 am

August 29, 2021

• Marin County School Superspreader Event: Another Scientific Communications Debacle from CDC (and the Press)
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• Links 8/29/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Mission and Money Clash in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Venture Capital Ambitions
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

August 28, 2021

• Links 8/28/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Imperialism Then and Now: Capital Relocation, Inequality, Encroachment and Protracted Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• Could California End Up With a Trump-Like Governor?
  by Yves Smith 4:09 am

August 27, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/27/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Book Review: Reimagining Humanity’s Obligation to Wild Animals
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/27/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:53 am

• Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 – Lead IPCC Author
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• I Studied People Who Think Leisure Is a Waste of Time – Here’s What I Found
  by Yves Smith 5:20 am

August 26, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EXPOSED: CalPERS’ Brainwashed Board in Denial that CIO Meng Caused His Own Downfall with Information He Himself Provided
  by Yves Smith 1:44 pm

• The Most Monstrously Overstimulated Economy & Markets Ever
  by Yves Smith 11:10 am

• Here’s What Makes a New Amazon Carbon Study So Unnerving
  by Yves Smith 8:15 am

• Links 8/26/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Imperialism Then and Now: Drain of Wealth, Depression, The Role of the State and Globalization
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

August 25, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/25/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EXPOSED: Transcript of CalPERS Closed Session on Ben Meng Departure Shows Clear and Extensive Violations of Transparency Laws, Builds Case for Contempt Ruling by Judge Markman (Presiding)
  by Yves Smith 1:45 pm

• The Contempt in Tangy Ranch Doritos
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/25/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Imperialism Then and Now: Wealth, Unemployment and Insufficient Demand
  by Yves Smith 4:28 am

• “All-Electric Future Comes At A Huge Cost”
  by Yves Smith 3:49 am

August 24, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/24/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• How the Economics of Walking About Helps Predict Unemployment, or the Value of Soft Data
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/24/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Spain’s Supreme Court Rules Against Using Vaccine Passports to Restrict Access to Public Spaces
  by Nick Corbishley 6:30 am

• The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

• Notes on the ‘Loss’ of Afghanistan
  by Yves Smith 2:20 am

August 23, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Waste Watch: UK Enacts Right to Repair Rules
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 8/23/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• CalPERS Officially a Laughingstock Around the World: London Newsletter Sniggers Over Failed Chief Investment Officer Search Even While Omitting or Getting Worst Facts Wrong
  by Yves Smith 5:57 am

• 50th Anniversary of Powell Memorandum: Neoliberalism Has Wrecked Its Hosts
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Amazon: Regrowing Forests Have Offset Less Than 10% of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

August 22, 2021

• Report: Fashion Kills Africa’s Rivers
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:55 pm

• Links 8/22/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Amid Pandemic-Driven Liquid Oxygen Shortage, Orlando Asks Residents to Slash Water Use or Face Boil Alert
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

August 21, 2021

• Links 8/21/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• School or ‘Russian Roulette’? Amid Delta Variant and Lax Mask Rules, Some Parents See No Difference
  by Yves Smith 5:07 am

• Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
  by Yves Smith 4:36 am

August 20, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Afghanistan: Another Reminder for Withering Britain
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Going, Going, Almost Gone: UK Government Speeds Up Privatisation of National Health System
  by Nick Corbishley 6:58 am

• Links 8/20/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• “Are vaccines becoming less effective at preventing Covid infection?”
  by Yves Smith 4:41 am

• Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger
  by Yves Smith 1:03 am

August 19, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/19/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Economic Backwardness and Religious Persecution
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/19/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Biden Administration to Withhold Medicare and Medicaid $ from Nursing Homes Not Having Fully Vaxxed Staff
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Texas Supreme Court Says Dems Who Fled State to Block Voter Suppression Package Can Be Arrested
  by Yves Smith 6:09 am

• Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
  by Yves Smith 5:48 am

August 18, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/18/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Conspiracy Theories Aside, There Is Something Fishy About the Great Reset
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/18/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Biden Forfeits His Afghan Victory by Defending His Deep State Advisors
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• CalPERS Comes Dead Last of 34 Public Pension Returns Despite Having Biggest, Best Paid Investment Office
  by Yves Smith 6:42 am

• Is Higher Education a Pyramid Scheme?
  by Yves Smith 12:04 am

August 17, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Michael M. Thomas, R.I.P
  by Yves Smith 9:50 am

• Links 8/17/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• “RLB Can Suck a Dick”: CalPERS Board VP Theresa Taylor Debases CalPERS, Sneers at Workers and Little People in Unhinged, Factually False Attack on SEIU California President
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• The US Is Losing Power and Influence Even In Its Own “Back Yard”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:30 am

• The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?
  by Yves Smith 3:50 am

August 16, 2021

• SARS-COV-2 Post-Delta: Andy Slavitt Says “Let ‘Er Rip” 2.0
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on the Covid Booster
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 8/16/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Is Western U.S. Experiencing a ‘Megadrought’?
  by Yves Smith 4:48 am

• A Half Century Since The Beginning Of The End Of The Post WW II Economic Order
  by Yves Smith 4:24 am

August 15, 2021

• Don’t Plant Trees, Grow Forests!
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 pm

• Links 8/15/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Why Economists Don’t Write More Papers on Political Finance
  by Lambert Strether 5:45 am

August 14, 2021

• Links 8/14/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests
  by Yves Smith 5:49 am

• Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
  by Yves Smith 5:14 am

August 13, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/13/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Close to 50% of US Workers Can’t Afford to Rent One Bedroom Housing
  by Yves Smith 5:20 am

• How a National Infrastructure Program Would Protect Americans From Hurricanes
  by Yves Smith 3:52 am

• The Oil & Gas Inflation Trap That No One Wants To Talk About
  by Yves Smith 2:45 am

August 12, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/12/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/12/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman
  by Yves Smith 6:28 am

• Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
  by Yves Smith 6:11 am

• US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well
  by Yves Smith 5:28 am

August 11, 2021

• Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report
  by Yves Smith 11:42 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/11/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 8/11/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• More Hospitals Nearing Breaking Point as Covid Spikes; Skrimping on Nurses’ Pay Made Bad Situation Worse
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• This Reddit Lament Sums Up Wonderfully What Lots of Home Buyers Will Grapple with as Housing Market “Normalizes” and Work from Home Fizzles
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

• Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
  by Yves Smith 12:49 am

August 10, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Florida Red Tide: Who Will Fix This Mess?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/10/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling
  by Yves Smith 6:03 am

• The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far
  by Yves Smith 2:57 am

August 9, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Globalization, Specialization, and the Division of Labour
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/9/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
  by Yves Smith 6:16 am

• Eric Topol Discusses Covid Vaccines Not Meeting Expectations, Breakthrough Cases Sicker
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop ‘African Green Revolution’
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:50 am

August 8, 2021

• Call to Ban Pesticides in UK Gardens to Protect Insects, Bees, Other Wildlife, and Human Health
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 8/8/2021
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Biden Moves to Protect the Tongass, North America’s Largest Rainforest, from Logging and Road Building
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:54 am

August 7, 2021

• Links 8/7/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Hoisted from E-Mail: Covid Death Undercounts, but How Large?
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

• The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
  by Yves Smith 4:39 am

August 6, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Tokyo Games Prove That the Olympics Are Less Relevant Than Ever
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• When is a Majority a Minority? When It’s the GOP
  by Yves Smith 5:13 am

• ‘Unimaginably Catastrophic’: Researchers Fear Gulf Stream System Could Collapse
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

• Apple Rolling Out iPhone, iPad, iCloud Spyware, with Kiddie Porn as the Excuse
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

August 5, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/5/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Biotechnology Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable.
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• Cuomo on the Brink: How to Impeach a Governor
  by Yves Smith 5:53 am

• Does the Tuskegee Experiment Really Explain Black Vaccination Rates?
  by Yves Smith 5:04 am

• China’s Industrial Slowdown Could Kill The Commodity Rally
  by Yves Smith 2:59 am

August 4, 2021

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

• If the Food Supply Chain Collapses Will the Public Finally See Through Brexit?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/4/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• “Potentially Very Bad”: Lots of New Covid Variants in New York City Rats
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Central Banks Must Address Pandemic Challenges
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

• Obama Wants His Private Presidential Center on Public Land—and Mainstream Media Is Looking the Other Way
  by Yves Smith 4:38 am

August 3, 2021

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2021
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Often Overlooked, New Building Codes Could Buffer Climate Change
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Sloppy Pfizer Booster Clinical Trial Consent Form Provides Way to Exclude Reactions That Require Emergency Care
  by Yves Smith 7:04 am

• Links 8/3/2021
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am

• ‘The Economist’ Notices the Climate
  by Yves Smith 4:21 am

August 2, 2021

• If Obama’s “Pandemic Playbook” Was So Great, Why Isn’t Biden Following It?
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

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

• It’s Time for a New International Space Treaty
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 8/2/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Five: Didi’s IPO Illustrates Why Uber’s Business Model Was Always Hopeless
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

• The Moral Hazard of Limited Liability
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

August 1, 2021

• Is the Soil an “Ecosystem Service” That Can Be Priced?
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 pm

• Links 8/1/2021
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Pfizer Court Fight Could Legalize Medicare Copays and Unleash ‘Gold Rush’ in Sales
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am