Category Archives: Guest Post

Links 10/19/2020

WHO is Right: Lockdowns Should Be Short and Sharp. Here Are 4 Other Essential COVID-19 Strategies

As cases of COVID-19 spike yet again in the US and Europe, what public health measures have successfully stemmed the pandemic’s spread?

With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public

Yet another example otf how the oil industry is subsidized, here by another way it dumps environmental costs on the public at large.

Eating More Chocolate: A Cure for Pandemic Fatigue?

Europe and the USA succumb to pandemic fatigue. Vigilance is the only known counter to spread of the virus. Practice small pleasures.

Links 10/18/2020

AOC and Other Top Progressives Urge Biden—If Elected—to Deny K Street, Wall Street Execs Top Cabinet Posts

Progressives pen letter to Biden asking him not to staff his administration with the usual corporate suspects; fat chance!

Links 10/17/2020

How To Break the Covid Doom Loop

Are repetitive short lockdowns a viable way to tame Covid-19?

An Indictment of the “Standard Model” for Pension and Endowment Investing

A lucid and daming explanation of why public pension funds and other instutitional investors regularly fall short of popular indexes.

Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies

Quelle surprise! Uber and Lyft are acting in bad faith in their struggles to get out of being classified as employers.

Pandemics and Inequality: A Historical Overview

The record of pandemics past shows that only devastating mortality rates reduce inequality.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/15/2020

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Milton Friedman Versus Stakeholder Capitalism

Looking at the damage Milton Friedman did by advocating corporate irresponsibility, which more and more orthodox economists have questioned.

Bill Would Clamp Down on Cops Collecting DNA From Kids

A proposed New York City bill would halt DNA collection from children in the absence of an arrest or parental consent.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/14/2020

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