Sunday, July 6, 2025
To Save the Economy, Save People First: Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
Evidence on what it would take to beat Covid: lockdowns, mask mandates with teeth, tons of testing and lots of economic support.
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
After decades of denial and delay by big agribusiness, the pesticides industry now appears to have become a climate champion.
Loneliness, Happiness, and Love in Times of Covid-19
The altered constraints on whom we spend time with imposed by the Covid-19 crisis might have affected human happiness.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2020
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‘The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family’: GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants
Taxpayer money subsidizes the looting of the Walton family. Why should one family reap billions while its workers can barely survive?
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Wolf Richter: No Payment, No Problem: In Rosy World of Forbearance, Official Delinquencies Plunge, Credit Scores of Delinquent Borrowers Jump
Forbearance granted as a result of the panedemic is confusing credit scoring algos, so the scores of borrowers are all over the place.
Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)
Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/18/2020
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Boeing 737 MAX Cleared to Fly Again, Amidst Plummeting Demand for Air Travel and Aircraft as a Result of COVID-19
FAA clears Boeing 737 MAX to fly again today, but the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated air travel and the demand for new aircraft.
Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines
Muxh of the initial funding for COVID-19 vaccines originally arose from federally-funded research. Socialize costs, privatize profits.
The Other America: The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA
Where there remains a sleeping giant of poor and low-income people yet to be pulled into political action.
