A major story on the CLOs chooses not to address the key questions.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Reminder: When the Very Very Rich Are Done With Us, They Plan to Leave Us Behind
More evidence, as if you needed it, that the super rich are not your friends.
America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
The US is willing to practice human sacrifice, rather than explore a way of defining wealth outlined by 19th-century thinker John Ruskin.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
Reopening Isn’t Reopening—It’s Cutting Off Unemployment
In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
Public Pension Plans in a World of Hurt; Even Loyalists Warning of Grim Prospects
Not surprisingly, public pension fund economics look pretty sick.
Congress and Corporations Join Forces To Crush American Small Business
Funny how that small business bailout worked…..
Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 stats (linear), Biden “hiding,” Biden’s career, Sanders and the DSA, Sanders and Biden (transcript), Biden task force, Trump polling, AOC ballot gaffe, recession stats, containers, Uber, robot cars, Musk and our failed state, anti-vaxxers, COVID19 and elders
The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results
Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
A Way To Make COVID-19 College Furloughs More Fair
Looking at how to cope with the college and university funding crisis.
Testing and the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Looking at state (non) progress on Covid-19.
