Friday, July 4, 2025
Riot or Resistance? How Media Frames Unrest in Minneapolis Will Shape Public’s View of Protest
Data on media bias in covering protes
Why New Infrastructure Is a National Imperative
Time to do something about America’s creaky infrastructure.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/29/2020
COVID charts of Southeast Asia ~ Biden leaves basement ~ Klobuchar veepstakes ~ Briahna Joy Gray ~ Pollsters ~ Manufacturing, personal income, consumer sentiment ~ Hydroxychloroquine ~ SIR models ~ Cannabis in ancient Isreael ~ Minneapolis “thugs”; mystery man with umbrella ~ Monet
COVID-19 in Mauritius and Other Tourist Paradises: A Progress Report
Mauritius coped well with Covid-19 despite its tiny size and the importance of tourism.
Death, Suicides, And The Pandemic Economy
The data on suicides and economic distress is more muddy than you’d expect.
Uber Destroys More Value: Demolishes Bikes from Failed Rental Businesses Rather Than Donate Them
Uber behaves badly yet again.
Heiner Flassbeck: The Euro Arrangement Is Faulty
Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits everywhere else and forbid the central bank from acting as the central bank of each Euro member.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2020
COVID, charted globally ~ Biden to reach youth vote through financial planning seminar ~ Biden sharts (!) ~ Klobuchar’s karma ~ Trump and seniors ~ Peter Strzok’s wild memo ~ Manufacturing, housing, GDP, retail ~ Carbon as a cash crop ~ Remdesivir hype ~ Ulysses S. Grant ~ Skateboarding
Yes, You Can Drink the Water: Clean and Safe Public Water Supplies. Microplastics, A Plea for a Modest Post Coronavirus Priority
Leaders of countries should consider what they must do to ensure we can drink the water in a world after we have learned to cope with coronavirus.
U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World
The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.
COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
Yves here. Correlation is not causation, but the Wisconsin primary looks to have ushered in more Covid-19 infections. By Phillip Alvelda. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which […]
Coronavirus Bad Look at Grandview Medical Center ER in Birmingham, Alabama
Coronavirus mask defiers in all the wrong places.
