By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Another shore-bird. Quite the wave-form. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. Vaccination by region: South […]
Monday, September 15, 2025
Only Multilateral Cooperation Can Stop Harmful Tax Competition
International tax reform, to check multinational tax avoidance, has made perilously little progress. Will Yellen’s backing make a difference?
7 Reasons Why a Vaccine Passport (Pass, Certificate or Whatever They Want to Call It) Should Give Us Pause
As the use of vaccine passports snowballs, concerns about their potential reach and implications are growing.
UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?
Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth
What is the Bullshit Economy?
Establishing some first principles of the bullshit economy.
Why Joe Biden Does Not Remind Me of FDR
Can anyone see Joe Biden halting a bank run with policy, and then a radio address to the American people?
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
It’s Time For a Green Social Contract
The green transformation will have far-reaching socio-economic implications. Action is needed to ensure domestic and international social equity and fairness.
The War Nerd: Taiwan — The Thucydides Trapper Who Cried Woof
Parsing the war of words (and some deeds) between the US and China, particularly over Taiwan.
Expose at Pennsylvania’s Biggest Public Pension Fund Reveals Lavish Private Equity Travel, But Misses How It Serves as a Bribe
Pennsylvania pension fund PSERS is under the hot lights for pricey travel. And its explanations only confirm its capture by private equity.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Tardigrades (Our World)
Cute, and Apocalypse-ready?
Measuring Human Capital: Learning Matters More than Schooling
Global progress in learning has been limited over the past two decades, even as enrolment in primary and secondary education has increased
