Category Archives: Guest Post

On February 6 Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, But Mainstream Democrats Fiddle as the Planet Burns

Democrats ex Sanders are punting on climate change.

A Plague of Locusts, Failed States, and Climate Change

How locusts swarm, create food insecurity, and how climate change means more swarms, absent state intervention.

Climate Risks to European Banks: A New Era of Stress Tests

Several European central banks have begun assessing the impact of adverse climate scenarios on banks’ capital. Comparable work at EU or euro area level has evolved more slowly. Supervisors need build up a distinct and more complex type of analysis, and should engage with banks now.

More Concerns About China’s Coronavirus Economic and Political Downside

How coronavirus is destabilizing China.

A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt

An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.

Foreign Exchange Swaps: Hidden Debt, Lurking Vulnerability

How hidden foreign exchange swaps contribute to financial fragility.

What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, It’s Never Too Late for the Lobbyists to Win)

Surprise billing is proving awfully hard to kill.

Believe It or Not, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was Even Worse Than Previously Thought

he legacy of Deepwater Horizon lives on, and not in a good way.

Links 2/14/2020

Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover

Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.

The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?

Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/13/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Yang NH, NV, Gallup on “socialism,” jobs guarantee, Tesla, Amazon, Wayfair, McClatchy spring, bee dances, the Antartic, oil trains halted by protests, #COVID-2019, surprise billing, “Forty Acres and a Mule,” bonsai

Right to Repair Roundup: One Step Forward, One to the Side

A modest civilian advance in the battle over the right to repair – and a brief snippet on how the US military manages creatively to waste resources in the same realm.