How rising temperatures helped create superbug C. auris and may turn other fungi lethal.
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Softening Real Estate Markets in Prime West Coast Cities: Does China Trump IPOs?
Looking at undercurrents in West Coast economies and what they might portend for the US.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Pork exports to China, Harris, Klobuchar, Warren, Mueller, no more “smart shopping” for heatlh care, manufacturing, housing, trucking spot market, robots, how Amazon moves data, Boeing, coastal relocation, contrails, trees, hospital monopolies, student debt, Medicare abroad (not)
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
The goal of any serious climate policy is to keep oil and other fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Accounts Ponzi Scheme
Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron.
Elizabeth Warren Seeks to Cut Private Equity Down to Size
Elizabeth Warren’s bill to end private equity abuses targets a wide range of bad practices.
John Helmer: MH17 Evidence Tampering Revealed by Malaysia – FBI Attempt To Seize Black Boxes; Dutch Cover-Up of Forged Telephone Tapes; Ukrainian Air Force Hid Radar Records; Crash Site Witness Testimony Misreported
The Malaysian government has come out against the findings of the JIT in the MH17 crash, charging US, Urkainian, and other offiicials with lying and engaging in evidence suppression and tampering.
Robert O. Paxton’s “The Five Stages of Fascism”
Extracts from the work of Robert O. Paxton, with an assessment of the stage our political system has arrived at under the Trump administration.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily and partially open thread.
Insurers Running Medicare Advantage Plans Overbill Taxpayers By Billions As Feds Struggle To Stop It
Lambert here: Because markets. Fred Schulte and Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. [UPDATED at 1:45 p.m. ET] Health insurers that treat millions of seniors have overcharged Medicare by nearly $30 billion the past three years alone, but federal officials say they are moving ahead with long-delayed plans to recoup […]
Syriza, R.I.P.
The rule of the “radical left” Greek party Syriza came to an end earlier this month after it had abandoned its promise of reform.
Incentivizing an Ethical Economics
History shows that incentivizing the wealthy to contribute to the population’s basic needs makes everyone a winner.
