Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Reminder: Washington DC Meetup Tomorrow, Friday April 12 with Matt Stoller
More details for our Washington DC meetup this Friday. Hope you can stop by!
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/10/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Gravel, Harris, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Yang, “meeting needs,” identity politics, Democrats to ban free IRS tax filing, consumer price index, bitcoin, Tesla, WeWork, Facebook, Apple, urban farming, cashews, student loans and suicide, mobile homes, new black hole
UK-Based Multinational Department Store Debenhams Collapses After 200 Years of Trading. Thank Private Equity
Debenhams follows the sad and well trodden path of retailers bought by private equity firms.
MMT, Models, Multidisciplinarity
Pavlina Tcherneva does the heavy lifting of debunking an off-the-mark attack on MMT by Noah Smith.
Brexit: Mayhem
What will the EU dispose on Brexit?
World Bank Financialization Strategy Serves Big Finance
The World Bank continues its proud tradition of making the world safe for rentiers, um, financiers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Boeing v. Airbus tariffs, Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, factory orders, small business optimism, employment, fracking, Walmart, Elon Musk v. the SEC, robocalls, Boeing 737, particulate pollution, soil, “The Wonderful Company,” Arnade, erisology, heart surgery
Ukrainian Prosecutors: Why Doesn’t the U.S. Dept. of Justice Want Our Evidence on Democrats?
Ukrainian dirt on the Bidens is languishing! Why is that?
We Need to Stop the Overdiagnosis Disease. Step 1: Remove Vested Interests
Time to stop treating people as targets for disease treatments.
Sacramento Teacher Strike Is a Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere
Sacramento teachers are threatening to strike after the district plans to renege on an agreement it signed in December 2017.
The Return of la Marine
Today, the divide from which Marine Le Pen profits has reached alarming proportions, most recently with the eruption of the revolt of the gilets jaunes.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders on open borders, Sanders and the Latinx vote, Warren, DSA, Stacey Abrams, copper, robot cars, Google and AI ethics, Amazon and writers, Boeing 737 orders, succulent plants, soil, slow journalism, identity politics, Tolkien, Japanese manhole covers
