Yves here. I am sure readers have many stories of their own from personal or family experience about how the health insurance industry shamefully goes into denial and delay mode with cancer patients. I know of all of one person who didn’t have a horrible time, but even then, as a widowed middle aged woman […]
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Inequality Indicator: Retirement Homes in Secondary Tourist Area (Door County) Bid Way Up
Yves here. Those of you who know and love Door County (a peninsula in Wisconsin with Lake Michigan on one side and Green Bay on the other) may be offended at it being called a “secondary” tourist area. But it almost entirely a regional holiday destination, laid back, outdoorsy, with lots of hiking and biking […]
The Green New Deal: Just Focus on What We Do, Not How We Pay for It
The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Harris, Biden, CNN, #MedicareForAll, vote harvesting, factory orders, housing, retail and wholesale trade, Elon “Tusk,” Lake Erie Bill of Rights, Isha Clarke and DiFi, cap and trade, Green New Deal, wage growth, data manipulation, UI/UX
Why Carbon Prices Are Not Enough
A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.
Randy Wray: Response to Doug Henwood’s Trolling on MMT in Jacobin
Doug Henwood’s intellectually dishonest attack on MMT sadly shows how many soi-disant progressives are in fact hostage to neoliberal ideas.
Brexit: MPs Sink to a New Collective Low of Incompetent Acquiescence
Motion on the Brexit front does not necessarily amount to progress.
Nomi Prins: Survival of the Richest, The March of Inequality
A look at the history of the rise in inequality in the US.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Trump and Hispanics, Warren and reparations, Sanders, Metro DC DSA, Virginia scandals, open borders, manufacturing, consumer confidence, housing, Elon Musk, value chains, Climate Youth Strike, Friends, loneliness, barbecue
The Yellow Vest Phenomenon and the Radical Right
While some protestors outside France are using the yellow vest to make demands for and end to austerity and greater economic fairness, in some countries, far right wingers are taking up the costume.
Why Did Trump Choose to Be Such an Unpopular President?
Trying to make sense of Trump policies.
Wall Street Journal Story Confirms That CalPERS Plans to Overpay Grossly in Its New Private Equity Scheme
More proof (as if you needed it) that CalPERS is clueless.
Brexit Linkfest Special 2/26/19
Is May about to make a big Brexit U-turn or just fake one to hold a Cabinet revolt in abeyance?
