Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts
An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.
Can China’s Outsized Real Estate Sector Amplify a Delta-Induced Slowdown?
Whether by accident or design, the implosion of China’s Evergrande will take some air out of its inflated real estate sector. What then?
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2021
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Wolf Richter: What a Collapse of China’s Evergrande Would Mean
Chinese authorities implement massive crackdown on liquidity-driven inflows into the housing sector.
Matt Stoller: #OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Trying to clear up the rear-view-mirror takes on OccupyWallStreet, ten years later.
Can the Economy Afford NOT To Fight Climate Change?
Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
Global Coral Coverage Down by Half Since the 1950s
Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution.
A Football World Cup Every Two Years? An Expert Runs the Numbers
FIFA has floated a proposal to hold the football World Cup every two years rather than every four. Will the overall effect be a positive one for Fifa’s income?
Covax Misses its 2021 Delivery Target – What’s Gone Wrong in the Fight Against Vaccine Nationalism?
Conversation.
The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely.
US Urged to End Drone Strikes After Pentagon Says Killing 10 Afghan Civilians Was ‘Horrible Mistake’
“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
Musical Interlude: Fathers and Sons
Rick Beato; Bruce Springsteen
