~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Air Travel and Covid in the Biden “Let ‘Er Rip” Era: A Personal Risk Assessment
Safety in the air and on the ground.
Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash
A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.
Murky World of Carbon Offsets Faces Greater Scrutiny
Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.
Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong
Looking at inflation through a class warfare lens.
Robert Smithson, Creator of “Spiral Jetty” and the Artist for the Jackpot?
A perambulation through the works of “land artist” Robert Smithson.
The Russia-Ukraine War, European Financial Integration, and Crises
Fragmentation of euro area financial markets has been relatively limited, as policymakers have benefitted from reforms after and experiences with past crises, European countries and authorities reacted with quite some unity, and direct financial exposures to Russia and Ukraine are relatively small
Izabella Kaminska and Yves Will Discuss the Economy and More with Gonzalo Lira Today
Izabella Kaminska and Yves will mix things up with Gonzalo Lira on his latest roundtable.
Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Book Review: A Global History of the Black Death
In “The World the Plague Made,” James Belich argues that the Black Death had a profound impact beyond Europe.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/29/2022
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Monotonous Lark, Limpopo, South Africa. I’m not sure if this is a duet, or an echo. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” […]
The Future of Global Catastrophic Risk Events from Climate Change
U.N.: Climate change is causing extreme events that can kill > 10 million or lead to > $10 trillion in damages, threatening societal collapse
