A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Mayberry v. KKR Plaintiffs File Amended Complaint, Refuting Standing Issues in Recent Kentucky Supreme Court Decision
Another front opens in the landmark public pension case, Mayberry v. KKR
Public Health Experts Fear a Hasty FDA Signoff on Vaccine
Experts have the willies about the rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine approved.
Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA
IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/29/2020
COVID-19 case and death rates ~ Biden veepstakes ~ Biden v. anarchists ~ Biden on ISDS ~ Bloomberg ~ Campaign Barbie ~ Election fraud ~ Housing ~ Intel manufacturing debacle ~ “Amazon’s monopoly tollbooth” ~ Mysterious seeds from China! ~ Crowds ~ Baseball workers ~ Trillbillies
Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?
Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?
AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/28/2020
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Plastics in Oceans Will Triple By 2040, Absent Immediate Drastic Action
Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Google Postpones Employee Return till Mid 2021 as Office Buildings Remain Empty, Residential Delinquencies Soar
White collar workers staying away from the office does not bode well for confidence about getting Covid under control.
