Unpacking the many political and policy contradictions in Bolivia over the past decade.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: USMCA not yet agreed, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Gabbard, Patrick, Sanders, Trump, Warren freezes up, John Bolton, Republican establishment on impeachment, Presidential debates, Epstein and Clinton, Krugman on The Blob, manufacturing, wildfires, mass shooters, income inequality
Lack of Right to Repair Limits Ability of US Military to Maintain its Own Equipment
Support for right to repair from an unlikely quarter: US military. Military hardware is sometimes shipped back to the states for repair.
PG&E Failed California. Here’s How the State Could Turn Things Around.
How PG&E came to dominate California’s electricity market, plus discussion of options to fix the fiery mess it has created.
US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet
Another medical data horrorshow.
On TV, Political Ads Are Regulated – But Online, Anything Goes
We’ve had over two years of pearl-clutching about political ads in the Internet era. What if anything should be done?
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/21/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Apple, Huawei, and tariffs, Georgia polls, Buttigieg, Trump and Tim Cook, debate wrap-up, impeachment, Democrats and health care, jobless claims, leading indicators, manufacturing, housing, Wells Fargo, ticker symbols, Amazon deforestation, peat, the rattled rich
‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Vulture Fund Buys Majority Stake at Tribune Publishing
Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital “is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry.”
Wolf Richter: The Fed Slaps Down Negative Interest Rates
The first major discussion of negative interest rates recounted in the FOMC minutes show serious disapproval.
“The UN Is Being Turned into a Public-Private Partnership”: Harris Gleckman Explains Stealth Takeover by World Economic Forum
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #7 in Atlanta, Georgia
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★Ten candidates on one stage! ★★★ Come on down!
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/20/2019
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, more in a bit. I got a late start, and then got wrapped around the axle on the latest impeachment stuff. –lambert UPDATE All done! Hat tip to alert reader Wukchumni for the capsule summary of pilot episode for the new FOX TV Series OK, Boomer, and to […]
