Friday, September 5, 2025
Trump Never Had a Grand Strategy for China: They Were Just Tariff Tantrums
Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.
Amid Recession Warnings, Trump Reportedly Considering More Tax Cuts for Rich and Corporations
Trump proposes yet more tax breaks, which would do more for the stock market than for the real economy.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2019
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I had a schedule debacle and so this Water Cooler is at present shockingly truncated. I’ll update in a rolling fashion section by section. I hope there’s enough here to get you going. –lambert UPDATE All done. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections […]
It’s Official: Parts of California Are Too Wildfire-Prone To Insure
California is leading a trend of climate-change-induced insurance redlining.
Crooked Conflict of Interest: CalPERS Board Member Lisa Middleton Pushed Radical Changes to Board Schedule to Solve Her Personal Schedule Conflict
New CalPERS board member Lisa Middleton behaved dishonestly by failing to recuse herself and worse, advocating for massive changes to CalPERS board meetings to solve a personal scheduling issue.
CalPERS’ Secret Investigation of Hiring Practices Shows Glaring Deficiencies; Has the Board Been Kept in the Dark?
CalPERS set out to hide the results of an audit of its hiring practices. That not surprising, since we have the key pages that show it got bad grades.
Shale Bleeds Cash Despite Best Quarter In Years
Quelle surprise! The shale industry is still a big loser.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: The dollar, Biden, Harris, Inslee, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Williamson, Obama’s first film, Susan Sarandon Derangment, Epstein, redistricting, Amazon, WeWork, Apple, Boeing, consumer data, vaping, climate and teeth, gut microbiota, cannabis, self-citing scientists
‘The Next Flint,’ and America’s Problem with Lead in Its Water
What city will be next to admit it has a lead problem? Why yours might be closer than you think.
CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: Underhanded, Dishonest Plans to Cut Investment Meetings of Poorly Performing Fund by More Than 50%, Shrink Investment Committee
The first of a two-part series describing the process and substance with which CalPERS staff is trying to engineer a de facto resignation of its board.
CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: “Attempted Coup” via Unconstitutional, Fiduciary-Duty-Violating “Code of Conduct”
Just when you think CalPERS can’t sink any lower, it manages to outdo itself, this time, with an illegal governance monstrosity masquerading a code of conduct.
