Category Archives: Guest Post

Net Neutrality Supporters Face Off Against The FCC

Net neutrality is dead. Long live net neutrality.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Sanders and taxes, Iowa, Wisconsin, ranked choice voting, housing, shipping, Tesla shorts, Audi CEO arrest, death of New York, consciousness

Links 6/18/18

Why It Matters If Fracking Companies Are Overestimating Their ‘Proved’ Oil and Gas Reserves

Comprehensive analysis of why it matters that fracking companies are overestimating their ‘proved’ oil and gas reserves– as allowed under an SEC rule change.

Italy Holds A Mirror to a Broken Europe

The election of a right-wing, populist government in Italy exposes the economic and democratic shortcomings of the European project and its nationalist rivals.

How Purdue Pharma Hooked America on a Deadly Drug

Purdue Pharma’s slogan for OxyContin was: “The One to Start With and the One to Stay With.” As reader Brian C added, “Stay with alright….’Till death do us part.'”

Gaius Publius: Is Anti-War Fever Building in the U.S.?

Will the American public make politicians address the cost, immorality, and futility of our war machine?

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/15/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war with China?, mid-terms and women’s turnout, ranked choice voting, the border, industrial production, manufacturing, CMS ratings, risk corridors, the Incas, genderless pronouns

Cryptocurrencies Are Lousy Investments

A skeptical look at the prospects for cryptocurrencies.

Why Are There So Many Unsheltered Homeless People in California?

Try guessing why San Francisco has encampments of homeless people….

Wolf Richter: Riskiest Junk Bonds Completely Blow Off the Fed, Face “Sudden” Reckoning

Normally risky credits like junk bonds are the first to react when the Fed starts tightening. But we are not in normal times.

Backstabbing Over Cows

The trouble with cows….

The Roots of Argentina’s Surprise Crisis

How reforms by Argentina’s President Macri helped kick off a currency crisis.