Category Archives: Guest Post

2021 Will Be Volatile

Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/31/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m being extremely lazy in the run-up to New Year’s. See you next week! –lambert. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 Not exactly holiday material, but it has to be done. Drops across the board, which I assume is entirely a holiday-driven reporting issue. At reader request, I’ve […]

Links 12/31/2020

Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’

No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.

Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.

4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as vaccine distribution begins.

A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar

An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/29/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m going to be keeping Water Coolers shorter than usual through the New Year. In order to make the year turn toward the light more rapidly, I will make the proportion of frivolous material greater than usual. –lambert. Bird Song of the Day Here is was a warbler […]