Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Trump, Warren, centrist angst, pollsters, McConnell on impeachment, Joffrey Epstein, housing, weak banks, TARP fraud, Walmart cheese shortage, Boeing earnings, US leads global green economy, the climate movement, moths and bats, GM strike, consciousness
Read more...Americans want to stay at home as they age, but it doesn’t come cheap.
Read more...How the Roman Republic repeatedly rejected economic reforms and fell more and more to bloody insurrections by ambitious consuls and Senators.
Read more...The Democratic convention is shaping up as a classic example of corruptoin.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Booker, Gabbard, Warren before the Federalist Society, Stoller on the Democrats, mnanufacturing, home sales, Goldman Sachs, municipal bonds, Amazon dystopia, Google and Facebook lobbying, facial recogition, coal, heat and infant mortality, snakes, bees, cash bail, “geography of desperation,” pr0n, “Matreon”
Read more...Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
Read more...Back to the future means not just considering the ability to repair but more actively purchases of new goods just for the thrill of acquisition.
Read more...The debate over what to do about trees and deforestation continues.
Read more...Drawing lessons from three books on the Roman Republic.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’ll be back in a few moments with the latest on Mitt Romney! –lambert UPDATE All done! Politics 2020 “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank […]
Read more...Another indictment of drug pricing.
Read more...Justin Mikulka continues his excellent coverage of fracking for DeSmogBlog.
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