Why trying to tackle trash with recycling is too little, too late.
Saturday, August 2, 2025
‘Time for Congress to Act’: Sanders, Scott Unveil $17 Federal Minimum Wage Bill
Another push for a minimum wage boost. The gap between the $17 target and the current level of $7.25 an hour is a yawning chasm.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/25/2023
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The Admissions Game
Quelel suprise! A new paper shows the very rich do very well in getting admitted to elite colleges. But why, exactly?
No Joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission Just Received “World Prize for Peace and Freedom”
Few political figures have done more to keep Ukrainians fighting — and dying in huge numbers — in a bloody, futile proxy war of attrition than Von der Leyen.
Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina and Head of “BRICS Bank” Throw Cold Water on BRICS Currency Project
We’re late to a story that interestingly has been very much under-reported, perhaps because it is contrary to the anti-globalist narrative….already a minority faction in the Anglosphere. We’ve said for some time that the prospects for replacing the dollar are a long way away, even more so with a newly-created, reserve currency aspirant. Our views […]
James Galbraith: How Central Bank Myths and Practices Support Financiers and Dollar Hegemony
Sadly, some bank-serving fables are very durable, so James Galbraith has (yet another) go at them.
New Address for Donations by Check!
Like the shoemaker whose children go unshod, we are tardy in updating our address for check payments! Oopsie!
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/24/2023
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Could Winning an Election Be the End of Keir Starmer?
Elected as the lesser of two evils, Keir Starmer’s Labour will face crises from the offset. Could its disenchanted left step in?
Rage, Neoliberalism, and Phone Trees
How neoliberalism is contributing to the collective sour mood.
How “Big Ag” Pollutes America’s Water, and Makes Money Doing It
How habitual and unnecessary nitrogen overdosing in American farms is making water pollution even worse than it “need” be.
