An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Who Pays for Stranded Assets? Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For 100-Year Old Oil Wells
Why shuttering oil wells is a physical, economic, and political mess.
Grenfell Tower Fire: Third-Year Anniversary (Non-)Progress Report
Some progress on Grenfell Tower: Remediating apartment blocks, ongoing inquiries, regulatory proposals. But not nearly enough. And then there’s the potential IT boondoggle. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…
We Caught Bacteria from the Most Pristine Air on Earth to Help Solve a Climate Modeling Mystery
Due to how remote the Southern Ocean is, there have been very few actual studies of the clouds there.
What Do Struggling Small Businesses Need Most? Time – and Bankruptcy Can Provide It
Can a leisurely bankruptcy process help small businesses?
Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/19/2020
COVID-19 in the West ~ Klobuchar knifes Warren ~ Could Biden be running a genius-level campaign ~ Empathy ~ Who lost China? ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Trump the undefeated ~ Amy McGrath ~ Rail, trucking, tankers ~ Go long Plexiglass ~ Ocean rise and the 30-year mortgage ~ Juneteenth ~ CHOP/CHAZ v. the Commune ~ R.I.P. Ian Holm ~ Smell and the brain
The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out
Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]
How America’s Covid-19 Rescues Look Set to Increase Inequality
Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
The Costs Of Safely Reopening A High-End Restaurant
A restaurant case study.
The Police Weren’t Created to ‘Protect and Serve.’ They Were Created to ‘Maintain Order.’ A Brief Look at the History of Police in America
America’s police started out as muscle deployed against labor organizers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2020
Global COVID-19 stats ~ Biden delivers speech successfully ~ Sanders influence tested ~ Trump’s plans for Tulsa ~ Supreme Court DACA decision ~ Karens re-considered ~ Employment, manufacturing ~ Casinos going cashless ~ Zombie companies ~ Asymptomatic COVID ~ Imperial cats
