COVID-19 problem states: CA and TX ~ Biden-Sanders Unity Task Forces ~ Biden and fossil fuels ~ Biden and finance ~ Trump’s plan to win ~ Kanye West needs to file his paperwork ~ Frum and Proust ~ Think tanks ~ Leading indicators, inflation, rail ~ COVID-19 and HIV ~ “Strike for Black Lives” July 20 ~ NY rental market near collapse ~ Boasian antiracism
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Biden Defends Undying Allegiance to For-Profit Healthcare During Interview With Dying Medicare for All Advocate Ady Barkan
Biden acts like the heartless pol he is. He can’t keep up the pretense if someone wants to get between him and insurer profits.
Unemployment Claims Hit New Record: 32.9 Million State & Federal. Week 16 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse
The latest unemployment data calls into question the notion that anything more than a techical recovery is underway.
Let the Predation Begin! CFPB Rolls Back Obama-Era Payday Loan Protections
Payday loan abuses are baaack, thanks to a full bore lobbying effort.
Beneficiary Uproar Over CalPERS Fraudulent Investment Strategy Claims in E-Mail Blast
CalPERS latest beneficiary e-mail had misrepresentaions that even the toothless SEC would sanction.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2020
COVID problem states ~ Festival of Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force ~ Trump gets Supreme Court respite ~ Trump and the burbs ~ COVID and multiple system failure ~ Employment situation, wholesale sales ~ Tesla sales ~ Capex ~ COVID transmission in stadiums v. marches ~ Essential workers
Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Why Gilead’s price gouging for its Covid-19 treatment remdevisir is even more egregious than you thought.
Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing (Part II)
Private equity profiteering in prisions and education demonstrates why their enthusiasm for socially responsible investing is a con.
NY Department of Financial Services Fines Deutsche Bank Over Jeffrey Epstein Abuses; Where Are the Feds?
Deutsche Bank revealed again as being overly accommodating to clients who play fast and loose….this one Jeffrey Epstein.
Will the E-Money Boom Make the UK a Hub of Money Laundering?
Quelle suprise! E-money is facilitating financial fraud. And the UK’s FCA is unduly accommodating.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/8/2020
~ COVID problem states ~ Electoral college map shifts ~ Biden’s typefaces ~ Trump to drop out? Not what he says ~ The Great Assimilation™ (and kreplach) ~ Vote by mail ~ Robot cars ~ Unto dust shalt thou return ~ Airborne SARS-COV-2 ~ Epstein’s lead-lined bathroom ~ Cat-bee photos ~
“Warren’s Eviction Bill Is Economically and Politically Savvy”
Why Warren’s eviction bill, which calls for a one-year eviction freeze, does not go far enough to save homeowners, tenants, and businesses.
