Wednesday, September 24, 2025

As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

Rex Tillerson grilled in New York City courtroom.

Links 11/9/19

The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”

How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.

Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs

Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/8/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: China and Shutterstock, Nevada polling, Biden, Bloomberg, Clinton, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, impeachment “coup,” trolling, consumer sentiment, wholesale trade, Uber, Amazon, recession fears receding, global production ecosystem, wine county fires, human diversity, MIT robots

The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars

Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.

Links 11/8/19

Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result

The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.

‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008

CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?

Ilargi: Energy vs Waste

Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/7/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: US/China to reverse tariffs in “phases,” theories of change, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Weld, employment, impeachment for “quid pro quo” to extortion/bribery, CA methane super-emitters, rivers in Tibet, Russia, Mexico, grotesque college admissions scandal

The Stormy Birth of “Europe”

A review of major institutional and political developments that created modern Europe.

Links 11/7/19

How Misleading Economic Analysis Is Corrupting Our Democracy

Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.

Police Deadly Force: Then and Now

Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.