Thursday, July 3, 2025
Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits
Important pipeline legal ruling, plus some context: the Trump administration didn’t pioneer US policy of greenlighting oil pipelines.
We Found and Tested 47 Old Drugs That Might Treat the Coronavirus: Results Show Promising Leads and a Whole New Way to Fight COVID-19
Yves here. It is disturbing to watch the push to con the public into seeing remdesivir as the only promising treatment for coronavirus. Please circulate this post widely to inform people you know that established, lower cost drugs also show promise. By Nevan Krogan, Professor and Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute & Senior Investigator at […]
Harmoniously Denied: The Wider Implications of China’s Censorship on COVID-19
How China’s Covid-19 censorship illustrates how Chinese citizens have internalized what were once top-down controls.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 states, ship owners on globalization, Festival of Biden v Tara Reade, Sanders organizers, Trump polling, Russiagate, third party, “sclerotic America,” manufacturing, rail, construction, recession, Amazon, Grubhub, May Day, Raspberry Pi, trust issues
Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March
Keeping tabs on Fed munificence.
More Public Pension Fund Pain: LACERS Reports Hit to Liquidity from Private Equity Capital Calls; Are Fund Managers Exploiting the Dumb Money Yet Again?
Private equity firms are sucking cash out of their limited partners at the worst possible time, exposing public pension funds in particular to liquidity crunches and fire sales.
Water Should Be a Public Good, Not a Commodity. Catalonia Is Showing How
The Terrassa Water Observatory puts citizens in the driver’s seat of water management.
Is the Tara Reade Story Approaching Critical Mass?
Biden is feeling enough heat about the Tara Reade rape accusation that he’s appearing on Morning Joe today. But can he make the story go away?
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, another household debacle caused me to get a late start. Worse, the echoes are still reverberating. So I’ve put out a skeletal version with an item in every bucket, and I will update on a rolling basis. Sorry! –lambert UPDATE All done! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added […]
Unemployment Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders
Why ending the lockdowns won’t do all that much to lower unemployment.
The Price of Meat
Meat and the rights of meatpackers have come to the fore.
