Category Archives: Guest Post

What Do Struggling Small Businesses Need Most? Time – and Bankruptcy Can Provide It

Can a leisurely bankruptcy process help small businesses?

Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right

vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/19/2020

COVID-19 in the West ~ Klobuchar knifes Warren ~ Could Biden be running a genius-level campaign ~ Empathy ~ Who lost China? ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Trump the undefeated ~ Amy McGrath ~ Rail, trucking, tankers ~ Go long Plexiglass ~ Ocean rise and the 30-year mortgage ~ Juneteenth ~ CHOP/CHAZ v. the Commune ~ R.I.P. Ian Holm ~ Smell and the brain

The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out

Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]

The Costs Of Safely Reopening A High-End Restaurant

A restaurant case study.

The Police Weren’t Created to ‘Protect and Serve.’ They Were Created to ‘Maintain Order.’ A Brief Look at the History of Police in America

America’s police started out as muscle deployed against labor organizers.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2020

Global COVID-19 stats ~ Biden delivers speech successfully ~ Sanders influence tested ~ Trump’s plans for Tulsa ~ Supreme Court DACA decision ~ Karens re-considered ~ Employment, manufacturing ~ Casinos going cashless ~ Zombie companies ~ Asymptomatic COVID ~ Imperial cats

Italy Once Again on the Eurozone Worry List

A new tsunami of bad debts washes ashore in Italy while banks are still struggling with the debris from the prior deluge of bad debts.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2020

COVID-19 in Florida ~ 2020 electoral map ~ Biden and Hispanic voters ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Amy McGrath ~ Woke insurance ~ Warehouse demand ~ Restaurant cash crunch ~ Container collapse ~ Stranded crews ~ COVID-19 vaccine ~ Microbiome of the nose ~ Black Lives Matter leaderless ~ The Third Precinct ~ Ruth Wilson Gilmore ~ The Death Star ~ Feral hogs

Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’

Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?

Automation, Globalisation, and Vanishing Jobs

A new take on how automation and offshoring affect employment.

How the Disappearance of Union Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class

How union support boosted black economic and social progress.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2020

COVID-19 by regions (plus New York) ~ Biden veepstakes (Abrams, Bottoms, Demings, Harris, (Susan) Rice, Warren) ~ Chait gets something partially right ~ Retail, manufacturing, debt ~ PG&E “mass killing” ~ Dexamethasone ~ Masks ~ Albuquerque shooting ~ Case-Deaton on COVID ~ Git

No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?

Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.