2:00PM Water Cooler 12/23/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
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Links 12/23/19
The Terribly Difficult Things Health Care CEOs Must Do to Make the Big Bucks: Back-to-Back Meetings, Complicated Schedules, Fatiguing Driving?!
Heatlh care CEOs are a prime example of executive feather-bedding.
Read more...Soil Science, Climate Change, and Property
Our understanding of soil is changing fast with new science. But can soil science help prevent global warming? Or, if the problems are political, not scientific, what is the political barrier?
Read more...Links 12/22/19
Energy Analysts Deliver More Bad News for US Fracking Industry’s Business Model
The old business model of firms borrowing money from investors while hoping for future payouts on record-breaking wells no longer works.
Read more...The Financialization of Child and Elder Care: The Tax Justice Network December 2019 Podcast
Private equity is moving in a big way into elder and child care services in the UK. Patients and parents beware.
Read more...Productivity Does Not Explain Wages
As long as we believe the neoclassical productivity farce, we will know nothing about what causes prices.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, debates, Borscht belt comedians, “Queens Man Impeached,” Epstein, “existential,” start-ups,, Kalanick cashes out, Starliner, EV battery sales down, 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions, the global financial system, TheRedPill
Read more...What Is an ‘Old-Growth’ Forest?
The absence of a universally accepted definition for ‘old-growth’ makes it more challenging to manage and preserve the carbon-rich ecosystems.
Read more...Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Portion Of Obamacare
An appeals court nixed the Obamacare individual mandate and put the rest of the law in play. What might happen next?
Read more...US Freight Shipments Fall Below 2014 Level. Answers Emerge
Freight volumes have traditionally served as a measure of economic activity. What do they say now?
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #8 in Los Angeles, California
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★ Seven candidates on one stage! ★★★ Come on down!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/19/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China and agricutural trade deal, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, the debates, impeachment, Pelosi, holiday returns, supply chain, ocean mining, Medicare Part D, Xmas lights, Xmas events, Larry Page’s philanthropy, self-employment, union organizing, Twitter, model trains
Read more...Sanders Report Shows How Millennial Generation Is ‘Being Punished With Crushing Student Debt and Low-Paying Jobs’
Sanders commissioned a GAO report on how high student debt levels and lousy wages translate into poor economic prospects for young people.
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