2:00PM Water Cooler 6/2/2022
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Read more...Category Archives: Guest Post
Can the Royal Family Cling on Much Longer?
Does the royal family have much shelf life after Elizabeth II?
Read more...The Oil Industry’s Downstream Nightmare Is Here To Stay
Another oil and gas crisis problem: inadequate refinery capacity.
Read more...“One Reason Republican Lies About the Climate Crisis Work”
Republicans use the fact that tackling climate change will impose costs as a reason not to go there, while Dems largely finesse the issue.
Read more...Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation
US/allied sanctions against Russia have not achieved their objectives but are worsening economic stagnation, inflation and hunger worldwide.
Read more...Europe Braces for Stagflation After EU Bans, At Least Officially, Two-Thirds of Russian Oil
The EU’s latest hare-brained gambit is likely to put further downward pressure on economic activity while exerting further upward pressure on inflation, which is already at or around decades-highs in most places.
Read more...Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why Big Tech practices are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in.
Read more...Gresham’s New Law – In War There Is No Law
Gresham as an introduction to some of the key financial players in Russia.
Read more...Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Roses are blooming in our garden, providing a welcome distraction from the dire and depressing news cycle.
Read more...Links 5/30/2022
Organizers Herald 100th Win as Starbucks Unionization Wave Continues
The Starbucks unionization wave continues. May it spread to other parts of the economy. Amazon, maybe? And beyond.
Read more...NY Spurns Recycling Fairy, and Instead Considers New Extended Producer Responsibility Requirements
NY is poised to say no to plastics? Alas, no, but the state is mulling extended producer responsibility measures, to place the onus for waste management on plastics pushers rather than on consumers.
Read more...Links 5/29/2022
Bank Holidays: How a Day Off Work Affects the Economy
In praise of holidays. Happy Memorial Day!
Read more...The War Nerd: NATO, A Memoir
NATO….how exactly did we get here?
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