Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Climate Risks to European Banks: A New Era of Stress Tests
Several European central banks have begun assessing the impact of adverse climate scenarios on banks’ capital. Comparable work at EU or euro area level has evolved more slowly. Supervisors need build up a distinct and more complex type of analysis, and should engage with banks now.
More Concerns About China’s Coronavirus Economic and Political Downside
How coronavirus is destabilizing China.
Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
Foreign Exchange Swaps: Hidden Debt, Lurking Vulnerability
How hidden foreign exchange swaps contribute to financial fragility.
What the Heck Happened to Surprise Billing Legislation? (Or, It’s Never Too Late for the Lobbyists to Win)
Surprise billing is proving awfully hard to kill.
Believe It or Not, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was Even Worse Than Previously Thought
he legacy of Deepwater Horizon lives on, and not in a good way.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Festival of Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, NV, IA, industrial production, inventories, consumer sentiment, retail sales, Alibaba, Softbank, Tesla, Amtrak, McClatchy, lithium, family offices, Jay Carney and climate, terms-of-service agreements, Valentine’s Day
The Public’s Right to Know: HA! How Courts and Federal Agencies Stonewall on Citizen Access to Government Information
Summary of some ways the US government de facto restricts access to public information.
Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover
Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.
The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?
Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?
