Lambert puts on his yellow waders and ventures out on the Times Editoral Board…
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The New York Times Dual Endorsement of Klobuchar and Warren: This Ain’t It, Chief
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 80 Comments »
A European Green Deal Will Not Work Without Refocusing Productivity
A welfare-oriented European Green Deal needs to focus on resource and energy productivity, not raising labour productivity.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Income disparity
Posted by Lambert Strether at 11:05 am | 8 Comments »
Links 1/20/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 335 Comments »
Brexit: Digging In
Brexit again gets ugly.
Topics: Auto industry, Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Politics, Regulations and regulators, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:28 am | 48 Comments »
Sex Workers Can Tell You Why Sex Work Is Work – Speak to Them
Combatting mispercptions about sex work, paritcularly the need for better work condiions.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:27 am | 94 Comments »
Lake Erie, Toxic Algae, and Mobilizing to Protect Toledo’s Drinking Water by Declaring the Lake a Person
How Toledo citizens mobilized to protect the Lake Erie ecosystem by declaring it to be a person with rights, the reaction of the corporations and the State, and how you can help.
Topics: Environment, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:25 pm | 27 Comments »
Links 1/19/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 301 Comments »
For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
The work of building biodiversity into our food systems has two distinct challenges. One is preserving the genetic material contained in the seeds and the centuries of agricultural knowledge that have developed alongside them. And two is nurturing a relationship with the seeds as living beings.
Topics: Environment, Permaculture
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 20 Comments »
Please Join Us! NYC Meetup This Thursday January 23 With Michael Hudson
Hope you can visit with Michael Hudson and Yves at our meetup this Thursday!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:10 am | 5 Comments »
Links 1/18/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 240 Comments »
How Climate Change Influenced Australia’s Unprecedented Fires
Looking harder at the Australia and California fires.
Topics: Australia, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:47 am | 84 Comments »
Integrating Black and White American Economic History
The interplay of black and white economic history: slaves, freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:35 am | 15 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, AOC’s PAC, good economic reports, blockchain, bulding empty apartments for the rich, DoorDash, Google Maps, invasive species, Inca canals, gardens, surprise billing, readlining and mortality, jobs guarantee, Buddhism and printing,
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 239 Comments »
The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
The myth of magical CEOs seems to break down in the public sector.
Topics: CEO compensation, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 22 Comments »
Links 1/17/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 199 Comments »




