Yearly Archives: 2023

The Debt Ceiling End-Game

So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?

Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process

“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”

Durham Report: The Republic We Didn’t Keep

The Durham Report and State Crimes Against Democracy

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/22/2023

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Links 5/22/2023

Four-Fifths of Board Members at America’s Top Six Banks are Climate Conflicted

High level links between polluting sectors and bank directors could be acting as a block to climate action, campaigners warn.

US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things

On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.

U.S. Shale Production Is Set For A Rapid Decline

Much tighter shale markets look baked in by year end. That would produce a lot of knock-on effects.

I’d Love to Go Long Masks, and… Maybe Someday! Tasks for the American Mask Manufacturers Association

Masking can become a social norm if masks become fashion items, but that can only happen if the mask industry adopts some standards.

Links 5/21/2023

Central Banks: Uncertainty Is the Problem, Not Managing the Trilemma

Regain price stability is difficult but doable; the bigger problem facing central banks is economic uncertainty

Links 5/20/2023

Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes

Misleading fact checking as a way to denigrate figures who regularly challenge the mainstream, here Bernie Sanders.

Could a Far-Right vs Centre-Left Showdown Be the Future of British Politics?

Amid global pressures, a centrist Labour government could face a far-right opposition, with no true reformists in sight

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/19/2023

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