Category Archives: Guest Post

This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong

As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.

As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find

Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/2/2020

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Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic

Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.

Links 12/2/2020

Are “Net-Zero” Emissions a Smoke Screen?

A wide-ranging, and therefore sobering, discussion of climate change policy, including emissions and temperature targets.

Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK

More bad news on the inequality front.

MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative

A political economy take on the EU.

Links 12/1/2020

Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050

A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020

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Obama’s Promised Land: Come for the Droning, Stay for the Erasures

Cracking open Obama third autobiography

Links 11/29/2020