A fresh wave of bank failures and mergers are set to trigger a new round of consolidation of the Eurozone’s banking system
Sunday, September 14, 2025
How Do You Combat Information Overreach?
A shaggy dog story, and a request for reader ideas on how to escape unreasonable requests for personal information.
Are “Net-Zero” Emissions a Smoke Screen?
A wide-ranging, and therefore sobering, discussion of climate change policy, including emissions and temperature targets.
Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK
More bad news on the inequality front.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/1/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative
A political economy take on the EU.
Another Blow to Private Equity: “You Can Pick Winners” Again Shown To Be a Fool’s Game
More bad news about private equity returns.
Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Obama’s Promised Land: Obama Wept (Two Episodes from Campaign 2008)
Obama on the trail in 2008….
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020
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OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t
Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.
Can’t Do America: Kick the Can Approach to Public Pension Fund Crisis, Even Though Canada Cleaned Up Its Mess
Why the US is certain to ignore the Canadian roadmap out of its public pension fund mess….and it’s not just because exceptionalism.
The Scarring Effect of COVID-19: Youth Unemployment in Europe
Youth unemployment spiked in the EU after the financial crisis. Covid is set to do even more damage.
