Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/4/2021

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If the Food Supply Chain Collapses Will the Public Finally See Through Brexit?

So is a long expected Brexit disaster finally about to happen, now that Brits believe the disruptions are past?

Central Banks Must Address Pandemic Challenges

Central banks in developing countries must use monetary policy to enhance fiscal space and support relief, recovery and transformation.

Obama Wants His Private Presidential Center on Public Land—and Mainstream Media Is Looking the Other Way

Obama gets yet another undeserved free pass, this time over his Presidential library.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2021

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Often Overlooked, New Building Codes Could Buffer Climate Change

Yves here. It’s nice to see a discussion of a concrete measure (pun not intended) to slow climate change. We need way more approaches that can be executed at a local level. By Emma Foehringer Merchant. Originally published at Undark On September 9, 2020, California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild opened a scheduled meeting with […]

Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South

Feminists failed to press for abortion laws when they had political winds at their backs. Women in Flyover are already paying for this lapse.

‘The Economist’ Notices the Climate

A prominent example of Serious People giving lip service to the disastrous consequences of climate change, with no urgent call to action.

If Obama’s “Pandemic Playbook” Was So Great, Why Isn’t Biden Following It?

Bullet points and tables can’t compensate for years of disinvestment.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/2/2021

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Links 8/2/2021

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Five: Didi’s IPO Illustrates Why Uber’s Business Model Was Always Hopeless

Didi has a more commanding position than Uber in a fundamentally more attractive market, yet has been hemmorrhaging money.

The Moral Hazard of Limited Liability

Some concrete ideas for how to pin the tail of the limited liability donkey back on key insiders, and make regulators accountable.

Is the Soil an “Ecosystem Service” That Can Be Priced?

The entire ecosystem services project is flawed, because only the use values of services so small as to be toys can be priced.

Links 8/1/2021