Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Climate Fight Over Line 5, or the Upper Peninsula and Canada Versus Greenhouse Gas Absolutism

The fight over shutting down Line 5, a major oil pipeline, could set an important precedent.

Why Naked Capitalism Is Such a Precious Place for Writers

Naked Capitalism gives its writers an unusal degree of freedom, and its sharp-eyed, well-informed commentariat holds them to high standards.

Medicare’s Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers

Seniors be warned: This Medicare open enrollment season is setting up to be more treacherous than ever.

3 Ways Congress Could Hold Facebook Accountable for Its Actions

Zuckerberg benefits from the lack of consensus on what to do about Facebook.

Bravo! Hit Third Fundraiser Target, Well on Our Way to the Fourth: Guest Bloggers

Dig deep to help meet our fourth target: rewarding Lambert, Jerri-Lynn, and Nick.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/10/2021

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McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid

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Naked Capitalism: Your No-Bullshit, Prescient Answer to Journalism of Attachment

How Naked Capitalism and its well- informed commentariat run rings around the legacy media.

General Electric Breaks Up, Symbolizing Decline of American Manufacturing and the High Price of Financialization

How stock price fixated management and a big expansion into financial services under Jack Welch did in the once-esteemed General Electric.

‘This Must Not Happen’: If Unhalted, Permian Basin Fracking Will Unleash 40 Billion Tons of CO2 by 2050

Climate change activists have new oil and gas wells in their crosshairs, starting with the potential carbon bomb of the Permian Basin.

Why the California Shipping Bottleneck Reflects a Threat to U.S. Security

The intensifying supply chain crisis should be a wake up call to US leaders about how dependence on imports hurts our security. But no….

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/9/2021

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Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap

How Medicare enrollees are kept ignorant about important options.

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