Sunday, September 14, 2025
Warning: If Your Business Depends on a Platform, You Don’t Have a Business
A warnign to small fry Internet content producers: time to think of getting your own platform as a matter of self-preservation.
Pension Bridge Presents Former CalPERS CIO Ben Meng as ESG Leader Despite California Investigation for Conflict of Interest That Led to His Exit
Pension Bridge discredits itself by inviting former CalPERS CIO Ben Meng, under investigation for ethics violations, to speak at its ESG event
RIP Michael Perelman
A belated obituary for the heterodox economist Michael Perelman.
Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID
The pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/3/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
‘Will End Up Hurting Tens of Millions’: Progressives Push Back as Dems Weigh Lower Income Cutoff for Stimulus Checks
“Means testing is a form of austerity. Scaling back on stimulus would be a mistake.”
More on the GameStop Short Squeeze: GME Myths Busted
Explaining why some of the nefarious theories about the evil GME short sellers are all wet.
Investors Not Reassured by Apollo Trying to ‘Splain Leon Black’s $188 Million in Payments to Serial Child Rapist Jeffrey Epstein
Apollo is not having much success with its claim that a $188 million paid by Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein in fees and loans was bona fide.
Covid Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions
Rich countries are subverting a program to assure that poor nations can afford Covid vaccines. Is a WTO mechanism a way out?
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/2/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Long-Haul Covid Cases Cast New Light on Chronic Fatigue Sufferers
Getting a better understanding of long Covid, including its worrisome frequency.
Some Implications of the GameStop Short Squeeze
The seeming success of the GameStop short-slayers could in the long run come at high cost to some of them and most of us.
