2:00PM Water Cooler 6/20/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; early voting and October surprises; Trump and the Latino vote; Biden and the Latino vote; mask warriors ~
Read more...Category Archives: Guest Post
Project 2025: The US Far-Right Plan to Undermine Democracy and Rights Globally
The Heritage Project 2025 plan is a program for the next president to roll back rights in US and abroad – including draft policies
Read more...Links 6/20/2024
Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
Read more...Courage or Hope? Facing the Climate Future
Yet another round of (nicely) trying to shake some sense into climate change remedy optimists.
Read more...Trump 2024 (Vegas) vs. Trump 2016 (Bangor): Rhetoric and Cognition
Trump’s mental acuity, voter appeal, and policies.
Read more...Power in Sovereign Debt Markets: Explaining the Uneven Debtor–Creditor Landscape and Its Implications
A long time ago, the US intervened on the side of underwater sovereign borrowers. Private creditors now extract even more than back then.
Read more...Inside Big Oil’s Business as Usual: Failure on Climate and Profits from War
A new report shows oil majors fall short of meeting Paris Agreement targets while fueling global military conflicts.
Read more...Bird Flu and Biomedicine, An Essay on What We Might Expect
Bird flu as a case study in the category error of libertarian medicine, the misuse of preprints, and resulting poor public health policy.
Read more...The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
A good, high level review of how Israel’s long-standing and now accelerating ethnic cleansing in Palestine depends on US backing.
Read more...Quelle Surprise: NYT Piece on Nigeria’s “Worst Economic Crisis in Decades” Completely Ignores Its Disastrous CBDC Experiment
The world’s largest live CBDC program (to date) has so far been a destructive flop. And that is probably the last thing the editors of the New York Times want its readers to know.
Read more...Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
Read more...Insufficient Supervisory Board Competence as a Risk Factor for Banks
Banking and financial market expertise is by no means a given.
Read more...Next Stage – The General Staff’s Targets After Putin’s Feint
Putin threw down a marker with his immediately-rejected peace offer last week. So where might the war go now?
Read more...Giorgia Meloni and Europe’s Future
Does Italy’s decades-long breakdown of the social contract provide a glimpse of what’s coming for Germany and the rest of Europe?
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