2:00PM Water Cooler 11/25/2020
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Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Cheaper than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Doesn’t Require Supercold Temperature
Some promising news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Read more...What Would a State-Owned Amazon Look Like? Ask Argentina
Amazon hasn’t done well in Latin America. Now Argentina will challenge private platforms to benefit workers, consumers and sellers.
Read more...Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
Read more...To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
More discussion of an analysis that concluded that the only way to “fix the economy” was to tackle Covid…and not hope for a vaccine bailout
Read more...Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Trump kicks Yemen.
Read more...What Connects Grenfell Tower, Dams on the Mekong, and a Shortage of Glass Vials for Covid Vaccines? Sand!
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2020
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Read more...Michael Olenick: How Biden Could Tackle the Student Loan Crisis
Biden could resort to a simple bankruptcy fix for the student loan mess. But would he?
Read more...The Mnuchin-Powell Affair Over the Fed’s “Special Purpose Vehicles” in Dollars & Effects
The Treasury and Fed set up junk-buying SPV programs The unwind is oddly controversial given that they never should have been created.
Read more...College Presidents Fail to Mobilize to Protect Students from Covid-19
A missed opportunity in the universities
Read more...Links 11/22/2020
Regulating Fintech in Europe: Lessons from the Collapse of Wirecard
Since Fintech companies can be very complex, their oversight requires understanding their business model and combining regulation and supervision based on both entities and activities.
Read more...The Impact of the New Asian Trade Mega-Deal on the European Union
Even though the econnomic impact ot the new Asian trade pact seems limited, Europeans see it as a geopolitical Big Deal.
Read more...Insurance Companies Flag “Driver Disengagement” as Factor in Robot Car Safety
The irony of automation….
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