Monday, July 27, 2026

Links 4/3/2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Opened the Curtains on the World’s Next Economic Model

COVID-19 has exposed flaws in the global supply chain economic model; advances in technology have rendered it obsolete.

Coronavirus, Control, Irritability, and Guilt

A coronavirus confessional of sorts.

Key Official Missing in Action: North Carolina Treasurer, Sole Fiduciary of Its Pension, Has Covid-19 but State Refuses to Say More

Key public officials are abusing their position if they keep the severity of their Covid-19 illness under wraps.

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: Legitimacy crisis vibe growing stronger… .

Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stem COVID-19 transmission triggered vast migration of the poor.

Links 4/2/2020

Why Can’t Everyone in This Country Get Free COVID-19 Treatment?

The US is well into the Covid-19 crisis, yet most citizens are at risk of big bills if they seek testing and care.

The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19

A detailed look at the Green Deal: bold goals, with a shortage of money, transition plans, and social democracy.

The Coronavirus Depression Requires A New Approach to Budgeting

Coronavirus spending illustrates the foolishness of legislators believing their own numbers.

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 tracker, new national poll, Biden on #COVID19, Biden backer: Sanders an “a*****e”, Cuomo bubble, Sanders on Wisconsin primary, Sanders and the black vote, Trump popularity, manufacturing, employment, forests, soil, hospital beds, vaping, essential workers

Informal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus

Not surprisingly, people who don’t have regular jobs will be very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. And there are a lot of them.

Links 4/1/2020

Coronavirus: More Wheels Coming Off

Some scattered but nevertheless telling signs of coronavirus impact.

The First Victims of the Oil Price War

Why Russia has the upper hand in the oil price war, and what that might mean for US shale players.