Category Archives: Guest Post
‘Something Big Is Shifting’: As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit
Hoyas show the way on fossil fuels divestment – other US college, universities, and others to follow?
Read more...Links 2/8/2020
This Philadelphia Refinery Is the Country’s Worst Benzene Polluter. Trump Wants To Keep It Open
Trump-aided behind-the-scenes shenanigans may keep a horrifically toxic refinery in business.
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #10 in Manchester, NH
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★ Seven candidates on one stage! ★★★ Come on down!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: New Hampshire polls, Biden, Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment post mortem, stupid elites, Democrat grifters, Florida redistricting, Lehigh Valley, employment situation, Uber, AirBnB, breast pump startups, Apple, Twitter, fireflies, bumblebees, Australian rains, insect morality, stamp collecting
Read more...Climate Change Needs To Be on the Balance Sheet
Serious people are finally calling for serious climate change accounting.
Read more...Links 2/7/2020
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Two: Profits and Cash Flow Keep Deteriorating as Uber’s GAAP Losses Hit $8.5 Billion
Dissecting how Uber spun its 2019 financial reports. The actual results continue to be ugly, with no path to profit.
Read more...Sanders Called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘Biggest Corporate Socialist’ – Here’s Why He Has a Point
As Sanders becomes a formidable 2020 contender, demonizing socialism is back in style.
Read more...More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain
A discussion of blockchain “proof of stake” protocols.
Read more...Links 2/6/2020
Beyond Burnout: Doctors Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures Of Health Care
Emergency room doctors have it worse than you thought….because patients lose out to corporate practices.
Read more...Iraq Is on the Brink of an Energy Crisis
A case study of the struggle for influence in Iraq.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/5/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this Water Cooler will still be not up to scratch, because I need to rebuild a Twitter account with new follows. Silly me, I did not prepare for this day. I will be back shortly after I put in a laundry. –lambert UPDATE All done! Trade “The U.S. […]
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