2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Seth Moulton, Trump in NY-21 and NY-22, capital spending, shipping, Google’s dark patterns, capacity constraints, smart cities, ayahuasca
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The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks
Fracking companies are drilling too many wells in close proximity to one another, and when they frack the newer wells — known as child wells — those “bash” or “hit” the older wells, cannibalizing production and sometimes damaging the older well. The industry knows not how to solve this problem.
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Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Sixteen: Is Morningstar’s Horrendously Bad Uber Analysis a Preview of Uber’s IPO Propsectus?
Why a Morningstar report on Uber’s IPO prospects does not begin to add up.
Read more...The Enemy Between Us: How Inequality Erodes Our Mental Health
Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other.
Read more...Ninth Circuit Orders EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos Pesticide
Ninth Circuit orders EPA to implement a long overdue ban of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to developmental delays in children and nervous system damage to people and animals exposed. Court previously had to order Obama EPA in 2015 to act on the issue; it’s unclear whether this decision will survive appeal.
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Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN Says Cooling is a Human Right, Not a Luxury
The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Why Is Thomas Frank Puzzled?
Is Thomas Frank really puzzled about the feckless Dems? Or is he still hoping they might change their stripes?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, tariffs and fish, China trade, Avenatti 2020, midterms, consumer prices, oil, Mr. Market, the press and intelligence, heat, habits, the mind
Read more...Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths
Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
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73 Years After Atomic Bombing of Japan: Nuclear Threat More Immediate Than Ever
In this Real News Network interview, conducted to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the second atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki, historian Peter Kuznick reflects on how the nuclear threat is more immediate now than at any other time since the 1950s.
Read more...Empires, Past and Present
Which countries fit criteria that would lead them to be classified as empires?
Read more...When Social Policy Saves Lives: Analyzing Trends in Mortality Inequality in the US and France
Mortality data from France makes a strong case for single payer.
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