Brexit jockeying is underway.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Can The US Assassination Of Qassem Soleimani Be Justified?
A useful high level discussion of the Soleimani killing.
Jane Fonda Is Pitching For Our Future. Lend an Ear.
Jane Fonda gave an engaging yet forceful talk on climate change at the Press Club.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/9/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Strait of Hormuz, Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment, Ballot Marking Device hearings, debates, rail freight, Walmart, Grubhub, Amazon’s Ring, auditing, kelp and carbon, bees, zip code 48217, stolen gospels, class and intersectionality, Twitter
Climate Change: Bad News from Australia, Indonesia, and the US
NOAA releases summary of US climate data from 2009, including catastrophes, while Australian burns and Indonesia floods.
Oil and Gas Emissions Are Reversing Progress from Coal’s Decline
More grim emissions news….
‘Make No Mistake: Harvard Has the Money to Pay Us Livable Wages’
Harvard graduate students are on strike demanding fairer wages, adequate healthcare, and protections from discrimination.
Debt Has Not Been Caused by Low Interest Rates, but Higher Rates Would Topple the Whole World Economy
Yet more official hand-wringing about interest rates…when they aren’t the core economic problem.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/8/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Warren, Sanders, Trump, text-messaging, Iran crisis updates, California startups, unicorns, SHA1 exploit, AirBnB, Starbucks, Australian bush fires, tomatoes, abandoned farms and carbon, tomorrow’s fossils, itemizing ER bills, good news on cancer, urban renewal, Robert Johnson
Why US Hostility Towards Chinese Tech Groups Feels Like Déjà Vu
US reactions to Chinese competitive threats are an awful lot like the ones to Japan of the 1980s, but the US now has a lot less leverage.
2019 in Climate Science: A Continued Warming Trend and ‘Bleak’ Research
Not surprisingly, recent climate reasearch is downbeat.
The Real Reason the U.S. Is Interested in Iran
An Iran backgrounder that attempts to explain America’s obsession.
Student Loans, Meet Greece: Extend and Pretend Bond Maturities
Shed a crocodile tear for investors in student loans: they are sometimes discomfited by short-lived downgrades when loan maturities are pushed out.
