The politics of a new fiscal package have now evolved. And not in a good way.
Friday, June 13, 2025
WHO is Right: Lockdowns Should Be Short and Sharp. Here Are 4 Other Essential COVID-19 Strategies
As cases of COVID-19 spike yet again in the US and Europe, what public health measures have successfully stemmed the pandemic’s spread?
With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public
Yet another example otf how the oil industry is subsidized, here by another way it dumps environmental costs on the public at large.
Eating More Chocolate: A Cure for Pandemic Fatigue?
Europe and the USA succumb to pandemic fatigue. Vigilance is the only known counter to spread of the virus. Practice small pleasures.
AOC and Other Top Progressives Urge Biden—If Elected—to Deny K Street, Wall Street Execs Top Cabinet Posts
Progressives pen letter to Biden asking him not to staff his administration with the usual corporate suspects; fat chance!
How To Break the Covid Doom Loop
Are repetitive short lockdowns a viable way to tame Covid-19?
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/16/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
An Indictment of the “Standard Model” for Pension and Endowment Investing
A lucid and daming explanation of why public pension funds and other instutitional investors regularly fall short of popular indexes.
Brexit: Standoff
Will Johnson pull the Brexit plug today, or decide to fight another day?
Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies
Quelle surprise! Uber and Lyft are acting in bad faith in their struggles to get out of being classified as employers.
Pandemics and Inequality: A Historical Overview
The record of pandemics past shows that only devastating mortality rates reduce inequality.
