Coronavirus-generated suspensions of testing throws a monkey wrench into the charter school agenda.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Low-Cost Ventilators Could Be Available Next Year. But Will It Happen?
Will the US get serious about getting more ventilators?
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/19/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: More musing on the Sander canvassing operation, among other things. Also, knitting!
Prisons and the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Must Be Done NOW to Prevent Catastrophe
Interview with prison expert Michele Deitch about what can be done to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in prisons: NOW!
A View From The Front Lines Of California’s COVID-19 Battle
California braces for the COVID-19 storm.
The Coming Fiscal Crisis Of State And Local Governments
State and local governments will soon be in a world of hurt.
IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis
The IMF dons its enforcement brass knuckles.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/18/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
There’s Nothing So Political as a Pandemic
a line has been drawn around political process, cameras have been pointed at it, and we’ve been taught that it’s something for us to watch from afar, a hobby to buy into, or not.
Why Sending $1,000 Checks to Everyone Won’t Solve the Coronavirus Crisis (Updated)
Why the Republicans’ planned coronavirus bazooka isn’t big enough.
Debt and Financial Crises: Will History Repeat Itself?
Unhappy families may all be different, but financial crises are pretty much the same, rooted in debt overhangs, and one has been brewing.
Triggering a Global Financial Crisis: Covid-19 as the Last Straw
An ambitious deleveraging plan as a Covid-19 response.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates coming fast now, so I […]
