2:00PM Water Cooler 6/25/2020
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Bayer Agrees to $10.9 Billion Glyphosate Settlement
Bayer agrees to $10.9 billion glyphosate settlement, resolving much pending US litigation. The company still faces European woes.
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‘Downright Dangerous’: Trump Moves to End Federal Support for Testing Sites as US Sees Record Daily Spike in Covid-19 Infections
Trump administration moves to curtail COVID testing – on theory that if there’s no test showing the tree fell in the forest, it did not fall.
Read more...Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API
Minnesota launches a bold climate lawsuit. What are its odds of prevailing?
Read more...Some Basic Lessons for the Governor of the Bank of England, Who Seems to be in Dire Need of Them
The Governor of the Bank of England had a major “put foot in mouth and chew” episode.
Read more...Saharan Dust Storm Expected To Cause Dangerous Air Pollution in U.S. This Week
Jeff Masters tellls you everything you want to know about a dust strorm set to drift over the US
Read more...Massive Credit Losses to Hit European Banks in Q2 and into 2021, Particularly When Debt Moratoriums Are Lifted
Keeping tabs on the wobbly state of EU banks.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/23/2020
COVID-19 in swing states, testing, Houston in trouble ~ Biden veep stakes: Karen Bass? ~ Biden’s hawkishness ~ Sanders agonidpol ~ DNC wants more money from Sanders ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Michigan dead heat ~ Neera Tanden ~ Housing, manufacturing ~ Savings ~ Fireworks companies ~ College football ~ Wokeness ~ Zinn, Chomsky on Tolkien
Read more...The Hidden Deaths Of The COVID Pandemic
Why the Covid-19 death toll is higher than you might think.
Read more...Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?
A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
Read more...Who Benefits From New Technologies?
Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely?
Read more...Who Pays for Stranded Assets? Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For 100-Year Old Oil Wells
Why shuttering oil wells is a physical, economic, and political mess.
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: Third-Year Anniversary (Non-)Progress Report
Some progress on Grenfell Tower: Remediating apartment blocks, ongoing inquiries, regulatory proposals. But not nearly enough. And then there’s the potential IT boondoggle. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…
Read more...We Caught Bacteria from the Most Pristine Air on Earth to Help Solve a Climate Modeling Mystery
Due to how remote the Southern Ocean is, there have been very few actual studies of the clouds there.
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