Not only is the airline industry in desperate shape, but its executives have made its bad situation worse, increasing resolution costs for all bagholders.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
How’s Your Economy, Small Businesses Death Watch Edition
A reader query focused on small businesses.
Is Silicon Valley Nudging Us Towards an Authoritarian Future?
Why it is not crazy to worry about Silicon Valley.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Rents Swoon in San Francisco, Other Expensive Cities, TX-OK Oil Patch Y/Y. But 23 Cities with Double-Digit Rent Increases
Large-scale shifts triggered by work-from-home, staggering unemployment crisis, and oil-and-gas bust. Rents respond in real time.
Homeowners Beware: Mortgage Servicers Still Can’t or Won’t Shoot Straight
Mortgage servicers are still engaged the abuses they perpetrated in the foreclosure crisis.
CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Made False, Felonious Financial Disclosure Report; More Proof of Lack of Compliance Under Marcie Frost
CIO Ben Meng demonstrates why CalPERS can’t be trusted….even as the giant pension is pushing legislation to be able to make loans in secret.
So What’s With Those Weird Seed Packets from China?
Oddities in the Chinese seeds story (and yes, people planted them).
How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany
In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed joke is a powerful act of resistance.
Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020
COVID-19 peak, or plateau? ~ Biden v. Sanders forces at platform committee ~ When you’ve lost Rod Dreher ~ Trump halts ad spend ~ Smugness ~ National security goons and the election ~ Warehousing, shipping for Xmas ~ COVID-19 immunity ~ WHO hires Cass Sunstein ~ Team masks
