How ancient colonizers left an enduring economic footprint, even at the local level.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Whoops, Dander Way Back Up: What’s With the Vaccines?
A detailed discussion around the world of some of the many ways officials and executives are impeding the districution of vaccines.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/08/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Stormy petrels seem right just about now. #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, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the […]
CalPERS Making It Impossible to Hire Competent Chief Investment Officer
CalPERS is such damaged goods that it apparently can’t attract the sort of CIO it wants to hire.
The Insurrection at the Capitol Challenged How US Media Frames Unrest and Shapes Public Opinion
An illustration of how media framing manipulates viewer reactions.
Net-Zero Emissions Might Not Be Possible Without Nuclear Power
UC Berkeley study: “The U.S. grid will need nuclear power and hydropower to be stable with such a large share of solar and wind.”
Having Dropped for Years, US Auto Sales Plunged to 1970s Level in 2020
More Covid road kill: auto sales.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/07/2021
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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Wave of Mental Illness
A sobering look at the further decline in mental health among the young.
MAGA Cosplayers Seize Capitol While Cops Flounder
How could a rabble occupy the Capitol despite months of fulminations about a Trump coup and a rally date announced well in advance?
Coming Attraction: IPCC’s Upcoming Major Climate Assessment
Another set of blockbuster IPCC reports are in the works. What to expect?
“Build Back Better” Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
Why Biden’s “Build Back Better” could make a big difference for what was once the American middle class….charitably assuming he meant it.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/06/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. My old iPad with the cracked screen finally failed today. I had kept on using it, and not the new one I bought after the first crack appeared, because I never updated the credit credit card number on it, and after a bank takeover, that card is no longer valid, […]
