Team Dem gets lots of egg on its face in Iowa.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing
Uber and other gig economy employers: “Let them eat a charter.”
Public Health Officials Offer Scant Details On U.S. Coronavirus Patients
Experts discuss US measures for dealing with coronavirus cases.
Agency: William Gibson’s Ode to Personal Networking for the Precarious Professional
A review of William Gibson’s newest.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/3/2020
Todays’s Water Cooler:
‘Uninsurable and Unhedgeable’: Central Banks Warn of Financial Crisis from Climate Change
The world’s most powerful financial institutions are sounding the alarm that “a new global financial crisis triggered by climate change would render central banks and financial supervisors powerless.”
Coronavirus: Australia Faces Calamity
Identifying likely economic road kill from the coronavirus outbreak.
Brexit: Warmed Over Chicken
Brexit trade talks are about to begin. The UK is back in drama queen mode.
Shall We Have a Dallas Meetup Thursday February 13?
Up for a Dallas meetup next week?
China Coronavirus Watch: Transmission Methods, Travel, Potential Mutation, AIDS Connection Debunked
Would the United States, faced with a similar challenge, do better than China?
Climate Change Helped Spawn East Africa’s Locust Crisis
East Africa had an unusually wet year in 2019 — warming waters in the Indian Ocean produced a high number of tropical cyclones, which doused the coast and created “exceptional” conditions for locust breeding.
Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
Fed tightening is no longer needed to create recessions, given fragile credit structures and a growing pandemic out of China.
