Have more aggressive shale development techniques simply front-loaded production?
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade negotiations, Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders and AOC, Trump fundraising, Warren on opioids (yay), impeachment, trade, jobless claims, prices, Amazon, Boeing, fossil fuel subsidies, rivers, MMT, airpods, cheeseburgers, obesity, Ani DiFranco
Perhaps It’s Time to Start Worrying About Global Corporate Debt, Suggests Bank of England
China’s exploding corporate debt is a cause for pause.
Brexit: Stuck
Nearly a month into the EU’s Brexit extension and no progress.
Farming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World
Is subsistence farming the way to the future?
The U.N. Says 1 Million Species Could Disappear. Pacific islands Have a Solution
A proposal to stem species loss.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler, including Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders campaign, electability, RussiaGate and denial, P4AHCF, consumer credit, jobs, Amazon, Uber, CEO Group, bitcoin, AirPods, Mr. Market, biodegradeable plastic, manure, stratocumulus clouds, #MedicareForAll, streetlights, ancient stash
Student Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications
The infamous HAMP program, which the Administration revised so many times on the fly as to give incompetent and mendacious mortgage servicers air cover for failing to modify mortgages, at least had a stealth purpose. As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said to the SIGTARP’s Neil Barofsky, it was to foam the runway for banks by […]
Brexit’s Disaster Socialism
Why disaser socialism looks as dodgy as neoliberalism’s shock doctrine.
U.S.-China: These Are Much More Than Just Trade Talks
Gaming out what the US-China trade talks mean for US politics.
All Eyes on the Fed
The latest round of debate on what the Fed might do down the road.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/7/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade negotiations, Festival of Biden, Sanders, Trump, pollsters, DNC thuggery, the State, Elon Musk, Kock Brothers and public transit, the right to drive, Google tech support, VIX, the boom, carbon farming, bats, insecticides, the Arctic, senior student loan debt, signage
ZEN and the Art of Modern Money (MMT)
Working through a primer on MMT.
