Trump-aided behind-the-scenes shenanigans may keep a horrifically toxic refinery in business.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #10 in Manchester, NH
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★ Seven candidates on one stage! ★★★ Come on down!
Twitter Is Blocking My Tweets (Updated: Back to Normal)
I appear to have been banned on Twitter.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: New Hampshire polls, Biden, Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment post mortem, stupid elites, Democrat grifters, Florida redistricting, Lehigh Valley, employment situation, Uber, AirBnB, breast pump startups, Apple, Twitter, fireflies, bumblebees, Australian rains, insect morality, stamp collecting
Climate Change Needs To Be on the Balance Sheet
Serious people are finally calling for serious climate change accounting.
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Two: Profits and Cash Flow Keep Deteriorating as Uber’s GAAP Losses Hit $8.5 Billion
Dissecting how Uber spun its 2019 financial reports. The actual results continue to be ugly, with no path to profit.
Sanders Called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘Biggest Corporate Socialist’ – Here’s Why He Has a Point
As Sanders becomes a formidable 2020 contender, demonizing socialism is back in style.
Rentier Capitalism: Great for Stocks, Lousy for Growth
An oddly neglected paper gives an idea of how much rentier capitalism has distorted the US economy.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/6/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Wowsers.
More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain
A discussion of blockchain “proof of stake” protocols.
Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff Asks to Be Released From Prison Under “Compassionate Release,” Igniting Debate Over Fairness
Pondering Madoff’s petition to be freed and the general question of compassionate release programs.
Beyond Burnout: Doctors Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures Of Health Care
Emergency room doctors have it worse than you thought….because patients lose out to corporate practices.
Iraq Is on the Brink of an Energy Crisis
A case study of the struggle for influence in Iraq.
