The CalPERS board continues to waste time on tinpot tyranny rather than focusing on the challenge of the penion system’s substantial underfunding.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
5 Reasons Why Trump’s Venezuela Embargo Won’t End the Maduro Regime
Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.
Doctors Argue Plans To Remedy Surprise Medical Bills Will ‘Shred’ The Safety Net
A PR campaign presenting the consumer fraud known as surprise billing as beneficial doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Australia Debates: Communist Party China the New Nazi Germany?
A row Down Under as a prominent and well placed MP says some not-nice things about China.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2019
Today’s Water Cooler:
Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom
Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.
Apollo Doth Protest Too Much: Our Leon Black-Jeff Epstein Post Elicits Intervention by Apollo’s Flack
Apollo looks unduly anxious.
Low on Water, California Farmers Turn to Solar Farming
Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?
Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Trump, Warren, billionaire donors, El Paso shootings, AOC’s chief of staff, DNC dysfunction, DSA convention, typos that change lives, those feral hogs
How Private Prisons Affect Sentencing
Since the introduction of private prisons, rates of incarceration have risen strongly . How much are those prisons to blame?
Michael Hudson: Why Frances Coppola’s “The Case for the People’s Quantitative Easing” Is for Banks, Not the People
A dubious proposal to continue over-reliance on monetary policy, this time with a quantitative easing scheme, instead of fiscal spending.
