Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/14/2021

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Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing

Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?

Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One

Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/13/2021

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Another shore-bird. Quite the wave-form. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. Vaccination by region: South […]

Only Multilateral Cooperation Can Stop Harmful Tax Competition

International tax reform, to check multinational tax avoidance, has made perilously little progress. Will Yellen’s backing make a difference?

7 Reasons Why a Vaccine Passport (Pass, Certificate or Whatever They Want to Call It) Should Give Us Pause

As the use of vaccine passports snowballs, concerns about their potential reach and implications are growing.

UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?

Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth

What is the Bullshit Economy?

Establishing some first principles of the bullshit economy.

Why Joe Biden Does Not Remind Me of FDR

Can anyone see Joe Biden halting a bank run with policy, and then a radio address to the American people?

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2021

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Links 4/12/2021

The War Nerd: Taiwan — The Thucydides Trapper Who Cried Woof

Parsing the war of words (and some deeds) between the US and China, particularly over Taiwan.

Links 4/11/2021