Frost’s justifications for CalPERS new private equity scheme becomes more incoherent as time goes on, but that is unlikely to prevent the captured board from giving it a green light.
Read more...Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes cities.
Read more...CalPERS manages to outdo itself in dubious managerial practices.
Read more...Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.
Read more...Revisiting a classic debate over the tactics for achieving political/societal change.
Read more...What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Read more...Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
Read more...What lessons can we draw from the success of the latest West Virginia teachers’ strike?
Read more...More proof that letting banks have their way is not such a good idea…at least for non-financiers.
Read more...Marc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). He tells us why they won’t work.
Read more...Yves here. I am sure readers have many stories of their own from personal or family experience about how the health insurance industry shamefully goes into denial and delay mode with cancer patients. I know of all of one person who didn’t have a horrible time, but even then, as a widowed middle aged woman […]
Read more...Yves here. Those of you who know and love Door County (a peninsula in Wisconsin with Lake Michigan on one side and Green Bay on the other) may be offended at it being called a “secondary” tourist area. But it almost entirely a regional holiday destination, laid back, outdoorsy, with lots of hiking and biking […]
Read more...The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.
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