A Brush With A Notorious Cat, My Rabies Education And The Big Bill That Followed
A rabies ripoff.
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Trump Never Had a Grand Strategy for China: They Were Just Tariff Tantrums
Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.
Read more...Amid Recession Warnings, Trump Reportedly Considering More Tax Cuts for Rich and Corporations
Trump proposes yet more tax breaks, which would do more for the stock market than for the real economy.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2019
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I had a schedule debacle and so this Water Cooler is at present shockingly truncated. I’ll update in a rolling fashion section by section. I hope there’s enough here to get you going. –lambert UPDATE All done. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections […]
Read more...It’s Official: Parts of California Are Too Wildfire-Prone To Insure
California is leading a trend of climate-change-induced insurance redlining.
Read more...Shale Bleeds Cash Despite Best Quarter In Years
Quelle surprise! The shale industry is still a big loser.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: The dollar, Biden, Harris, Inslee, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Williamson, Obama’s first film, Susan Sarandon Derangment, Epstein, redistricting, Amazon, WeWork, Apple, Boeing, consumer data, vaping, climate and teeth, gut microbiota, cannabis, self-citing scientists
Read more...‘The Next Flint,’ and America’s Problem with Lead in Its Water
What city will be next to admit it has a lead problem? Why yours might be closer than you think.
Read more...Is the So-Called “Manufacturing Renaissance” a Mirage?
38 manufacturing industries continue to decline and nine of 10 of these industries are the critical industries that are fundamental to the manufacturing process
Read more...Externalities – And Cheating – in the Financial Crisis
The magnitudes of booms and busts are amplified by two significant externalities triggered by aggregate shocks: the endogeneity of bank equity due to mark-to-market accounting and of bank liquidity due to ‘fire-sales’ of securitised assets. In addition to economic models, legal and political factors should also be considered.
Read more...Links 8/19/19
One Nation Under Stress?
Why stress is not all it is cracked up to be.
Read more...Phishing Equilibria in E-Commerce: Shopping Sites and Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to. Shopping sites use them a lot, and the bigger the site, the more likely.
Read more...Links 8/18/19
China’s Ultimate Play For Global Oil Market Control
The main driving issue is the realization by the Saudis that, irrespective of the reassuring rhetoric of Trump and Kushner, their bitter nemesis, Qatar, is far more important to the US than the rest of the conservative Arab monarchies and sheikhdoms of the GCC.
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