Today’s Water Cooler: Iran oil to China blocked, trade deal with Japan, Warren and big donors, WFP, and #MedicareForAll, latest on Ukraine, Epstein and Prince Andrew, jobless claims, GDP, international trade, Uber, WeWork, Peloton, Tesla, Amazon, hedgies and vaping, climate and the oceans, income inequality, Piketty on billionaires, GM strike
Friday, September 26, 2025
Could Climate Change Fuel the Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism?
How climate change is bad not just for health but also politics.
Cory Doctorow: Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the Making of a Whistleblower
A review of Edward Snowden’s new book.
Wolf Richter: How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance
Health insurance costs will kill you if your medical issues don’t get you first.
Who Advocates For Surprise Medical Billing? – Private Equity Hides Behind Physicians’ White Coats
Private equity is a danger to your health via its role in suprise billing. To hang onto its meal ticket, it is funding dark money group and ads to block legislation.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/25/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Trump, Warren, impeachment fracas (especially the timing), democracy, the left, new home sales, business uncertainty, investor confidence, WeWork, Daimler, Boeing 737, sea level rise, rain forests, Clarence Thomas, Kaiser and GM strikes, machine malfunction
After Climate-Focused 2020 Bid, Inslee Faces Indigenous Campaigners’ Demand to End All Fossil Fuel Projects in Washington
Governor Jay Inslee exposed as a climate change hypocrite.
Michael Hudson: Asset-Price Inflation and Rent Seeking
A meaty new paper by Michael Hudson.
Brexit: All Eyes on Boris
Why Johnson may not be over.
Big Tech ‘Nudges’ Our Behavior for Its Own Greed: Here’s a 4-Step Social Media Self-Defense Class
Some simple suggestions for how to keep tech from running your life.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/24/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Alert reader dk (not to be confused with DK) is in the process of developing the following interactive […]
Take Your Pick of Left Wing Climate Change Narratives: Green Abundance or Righteous Austerity
Is there climate change orthodoxy?
