The idea of getting rid of a hopelessly captured and largely redundant bank regulator, the OCC, is gaining support.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
We Really Do Need to Rethink the Economics of Saving, Most of Which Is Nonsense
Savings plays an important role in household management (or does when the household isn’t desperate), yet economists don’t get it.
Closing Hours of 2021 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!
2021 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/27/2021
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The Corporate Food Takeover
Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
Mexico’s AMLO Locks Horns With Business Elite As Make-or-Break Elections Loom
Long-simmering tensions between government and business interests escalate in the run-up to the country’s biggest ever midterm elections.
The Idiotic Saga of the New York Times Cooking Community
A New York Times brand extension project goes pear shaped.
The Ugly Truth About Renewable Power
Questions about how to make intermittent renewable energy production work for users conditioned to always-here power.
Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President
Torture, warrantless surveillance, energy policy
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2021
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Announcing 2021 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!
2021 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler
California Judiciary Committee Gives Blistering Assessment of CalPERS’ Fiduciary Duty Failings in Analysis of Fraud-Friendly Private Debt Secrecy Bill
The Judiciary Committee’s analysis of a CalPERS-sponsored bill shows that Sacramento is noticing the fund’s chicanery and incompetence.
China Has a Grand Carbon Neutrality Target But Where Is the Plan?
China’s new long-term targets, to reach peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, are yet to be matched with a consistent short-term action plan.
