The iPhone case unambiguously demonstrates that conventional trade statistics significantly inflate China’s trade imbalance with the US.
Friday, January 2, 2026
30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided
Why Eastern Germany is still a place apart.
Electronic Voting Machine Debacle Continues in 2019, Setting Dangerous Precedent for 2020
Bloomberg’s recent story on electronic voting machines is good, but ignores their private equity owners, soft-pedals the role of corruption, and ignores the incursion of the intelligence community into the voting process.
As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled
Rex Tillerson grilled in New York City courtroom.
The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China and Shutterstock, Nevada polling, Biden, Bloomberg, Clinton, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, impeachment “coup,” trolling, consumer sentiment, wholesale trade, Uber, Amazon, recession fears receding, global production ecosystem, wine county fires, human diversity, MIT robots
The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars
Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result
The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.
‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008
CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
Ilargi: Energy vs Waste
Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/7/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: US/China to reverse tariffs in “phases,” theories of change, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Weld, employment, impeachment for “quid pro quo” to extortion/bribery, CA methane super-emitters, rivers in Tibet, Russia, Mexico, grotesque college admissions scandal
