Lawsuit reveals border searches of electronic devices have nearly quadrupled in four years . US border officials claim they don’t need a warrant for such searches, can investigate issues beyond customs and immigration issues, and share data obtained with other foreign and domestic agencies. Plaintiffs ask judge to grant summary judgment and require warrants. Whatever she decides, the case will be appealed.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Wolf Richter: Tesla Discloses Record Pollution Credits for Q1: Without Them, it Would Have Lost $918 Million and Bled $1.14 Billion in Cash
Tesla’s 10-Q filing reveals that without taxpayer-funded pollution credits the company gets from the government and sells to other companies, its loss as automaker and solar-panel company would have been $918 million and its negative cash flow wouldn’t have been a cash drain of $919 million but a cash sinkhole of $1.14 billion
Coping With World Bank-Led Financialization
The World Bank has successfully promoted its ‘Maximizing Finance for Development’ (MFD) strategy by embracing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, internationally endorsed in September 2015.
Bill Black and June Carbone Will Join Our Minneapolis Meetup Tomorrow, May 2!
If you are in the Twin Cities area, hope you can make our meetup tomorrow and chat with Bill Black and June Carbone.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders app, the Indivisibe pledge, CAP, employment, manufacturing, housing, construction, credit card debt, House Rules Committee #MedicareForAll hearing, data as blood, water, snow, drought, Uber strike, athletes and testosterone
Apple to California Legislators: Consumers Will Hurt Themselves if Provided a Right to Repair
Apple and tech lobbyists delay a California bill to provide a statewide right to repair until 2020, claiming consumers will hurt themselves if the state capitulates on this issue. They also successfully deploy the hackers in the basement boogeyman.
Plastic Watch: Debunking the Technofix Fairy, Biodegradable Bags Don’t Degrade
‘Biodegradable ‘ plastic bags were still intact and capable of carrying shopping three years after being exposed to the natural environment: some arguments and evidence not to rely on the technofix fairy to solve the plastics crisis.
We Live in a World With Very Rich Multinational Mining Companies, and Very Poor Miners
The Porgera Joint Venture – a gold mining operation in Paupa New Guinea, sucks gold out of a mountaintop, providing little benefit to miners or the people who live near the mine. Activist groups, and a lawsuit recently filed in Australia, seek to change that, as well as correct horrific human rights abuses.
Bill Black: If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren’t Used, What Can Warren Change?
Bill Black demolishes the notion that we can’t prosecute banksters with laws now in place. He there’s no need to pass new laws – as Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes – but instead to appoint regulators and legal officers who’ll use what we know about dealing with criminogenic environments to prosecute white collar criminals. And to provide them with support and resources.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade deal and enforcement, Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, AM radio, manufacturing, employment cost, housing, Alden Capital, Boeing, Tesla, permafrost, health insurance, the Battle of Winterfell, the codex vs. the scroll
How Far Can We Push Fiscal Spending in Light of MMT? Some Optimistic Reflections on the Potential For Economic Experimentation
Estimating where MMT’s inflation constraint on fiscal spending kicks in.
The Tragedy of the Electric Commons: How New York’s Renewable Energy Policy Failed, and What We Can Do Now
Why renewable energy has gone nowhere in New York state….the fear that it would produce a death spiral for utilities.
Buttigieg’s Small Donor Surge: Less There Than Meets the Eye?
A first look at the data about Buttigieg’s donors raises some uncomfortable questions.
