Problems with the oil, gas, and petrchemical industries predate the COVID-19 pandemic – and now will be even more difficult to rseolve.
Read more...The outbreak of “hero” talk is a long-overdue admission that blue-collar workers are the backbone of the US economy. Time to pay them more.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls out one of CalPERS CIO Ben Meng’s Big Lies, and unearths an even bigger one.
Read more...It may be simpler to enact a payments holiday than to try to get money to the hands of individuals who desperately need it.
Read more...May Day is around the corner. It seems a fitting time for workers to demand better via a general strike.
Read more...Yet another pandemic downside….
Read more...The supposed irresistable force of the economy is losing out to the immovable object of the coronavirus.
Read more...A recap of what Taleb and his fellow complex systems analysts have been saying about coronavirus. Not pretty.
Read more...Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next?
Read more...Quelle surprise! Big banks in the UK don’t like making small business loans, especially not at 1.5%.
Read more...The airlines are at the trough. It’s not quite as unseemly as the 2008 bank bailouts, but that’s an awfully low bar.
Read more...Some spots in America are staring to get serious about contact tracing to limit coronavirus spread. But can they commit the resources?
Read more...More evidence that CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng is over his head.
Read more...As the virus has small, local farms scrambling for income streams, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one way to support them.
Read more...A look at promising Covid-19 test methods, and why diagnosis approaches may wind up differing across countries.
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