Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Booker, Gabbard, Warren before the Federalist Society, Stoller on the Democrats, mnanufacturing, home sales, Goldman Sachs, municipal bonds, Amazon dystopia, Google and Facebook lobbying, facial recogition, coal, heat and infant mortality, snakes, bees, cash bail, “geography of desperation,” pr0n, “Matreon”
Read more...Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
Read more...Back to the future means not just considering the ability to repair but more actively purchases of new goods just for the thrill of acquisition.
Read more...The debate over what to do about trees and deforestation continues.
Read more...Drawing lessons from three books on the Roman Republic.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’ll be back in a few moments with the latest on Mitt Romney! –lambert UPDATE All done! Politics 2020 “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank […]
Read more...Another indictment of drug pricing.
Read more...Justin Mikulka continues his excellent coverage of fracking for DeSmogBlog.
Read more...Yves here. Even thought the mainstream media, as usual, duly applauded the winners of this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, there’s been less attention paid to the recipients than usual and far more criticism, some very measured, others more critical. The winners helped develop and promote an approach to development economics they called “randomized control […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg (!), Buttigieg, Gabbard, Sanders, Warren, impeachment (Mulvaney and Biden), leading indicators, Extinction Rebellion, water follies, Amazon, feet loaf
Read more...Even if you beleve that taxes fund federal spending, a new study shows it is not necessary to raise taxes to pay for Medicare for All.
Read more...Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?
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