Category Archives: Guest Post

New Report: U.S. Dams, Levees Get D Grades, Need $115 Billion in Upgrades

Heavier precipitation caused by climate change is straining aging flood-control systems throughout the U.S.

Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While John Deere Reneges on Promise to U.S. Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available

On March 1, the EU implemented a right to repair for some consumer electrical goods; which U.S. state will wake up and do the same?

Links 3/7/2021

Pointless Pain Is What We’re Enduring. And All for the Sake of Accepting That Money is Not a Constraint on Our Potential, and Never Will Be

Defitic hysteria, UK style, and why misunderstanding what government money is about persists.

The Jobs Recovery, Compared to the “Good Times” Trend

February confirms: V-shaped jobs recovery petered out in October about two-thirds into it.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/5/2021

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Economists’ Rx: “Sick? Stay Home!”

Economists endorse sick day mandates. Pass the word.

Links 3/5/2021

Covid Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways

The more experts look at Covid, the more they seem to come up with new questions rather than answers.

The U.S. Grid Isn’t Ready For A Major Shift To Renewables

The Texas power outages exposed serious shortcomings with the structure and operation of the US electrical grid.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2021

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GOP Voting Rights Act Position Falls Apart in SCOTUS Arguments

The GOP scored an own goal in its Supreme Court arguments on a closely-watched Arizona voting rights case.

Links 3/4/2021

Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems

Why the Biden stimulus program is fundamentally wrongheaded.

Facebook and Google vs the Free Press

The effort to contain Google and Facebook were only in the skirmish stage until Australia and Maryland upped the ante with their tax powers.