Is toxic haze the new normal for Sydney?
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/10/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: USMCA (NAFTA), Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, Warren, articles of impeachment released, Horowitz report, Aramco, Away, SoftBank, McClatchy, private debt market, plant trees in square holes, orphaned oil wells, BECCs, water, surprise billing, MBAs, greivances, Volcker, artificial robot skin, exercise
Payday Lenders Offering Installment Loans to Evade Regulations – But They May Be Even Worse
When is a payday loan still pretty much a payday loan? When it’s an installment loan with annual interest rates over 100%.
Misunderstanding Volcker
A reappraisal of Volcker, who was more hostile to workers and less hard on financiers than the press would have you believe.
A Window into European Versus US Management
Evidence keeps accumulating that American management is rotten.
“Less-Lethal” Weapon Abuse in Chile
On the deliberately vicious use of supposedly use of less lethal weapons.
Impeachment, the House as Prosecutor, and Justice
If we consider the House as a prosecutor, is the House acting as an ethical prosecutor should?
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, employment situation, banking, commodities, Tesla, United Airlines, the ozone layer, permafrost, ocean oxygen, Portuguese wildfires, Florida keys, groundwater, USC corruption, Uber, climate change and labor
BBVA Compass Fails to Dispute, Much the Less Remedy, Retaliatory Swatting, Disclosure of Confidential Information, and Reckless Treatment of Elderly Customer
BBVA has not denied that an officer swatted an elderly woman on fabricated grounds as retaliation for documenting his reckless advice.
The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business: The Reassurances Are Demonstrably False
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
Elizabeth Warren’s “Foreign Policy”
Yves here. I hate to seem unduly hard on Warren, but she has made having detailed and supposedly well informed policy positions here calling card. This post by Ilargi examines one she volunteered, as opposed to backed into by being questioned in an interview or a debate. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer. an editor at Automatic […]
Estuaries, Climate Change, and “Blue Carbon”
Estuaries defined, whether they are carbon sources or carbon sinks, and an excursion into the world of climate NGOs through “blue carbon.”
