More Concerns About China’s Coronavirus Economic and Political Downside
How coronavirus is destabilizing China.
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Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
Read more...A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
Read more...Foreign Exchange Swaps: Hidden Debt, Lurking Vulnerability
How hidden foreign exchange swaps contribute to financial fragility.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?
Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?
Read more...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
Read more...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.
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Trump Drops Antitrust Probe of Four Automakers Which Adopted Tougher Cal Tailpipe Emissions Standards
Trump drops antitrust investigation of emissions agreeemt between four automakers and state California.
Read more...Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite
Lower income towns in New Hampshire voted heavily for Sanders, while richer towns did the opposite.
Read more...Five Hot Takes on Sanders’ Victory in the New Hampshire Primary
Like it says in the headline….
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