Sunday, June 15, 2025
Michael Olenick: The Real Story of “MAGA Bomber” Cesar Sayoc’s Foreclosure
A key piece of stripper-turned-MAGA bomber Cesar Sayoc’s slide into financial ruin.
Contagion in the European CoCos Market
the possibility that the coupon payment on the CoCos issued by a single bank might be suspended led to very adverse dynamics in the entire market for CoCos that cannot be totally explained by banks’ fundamentals.
Can Politics Ever Be Compassionate?
Why the time is overdue to have politics give much higher priority to reducing suffering.
Mark Ames: ShamiWitness: When Bellingcat and Neocons Collaborated With The Most Influential ISIS Propagandist On Twitter
But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Video: An intro to MMT, as presented at September’s International MMT Conference in NYC
A very readable — or listenable — introduction to MMT, in plain language
Trump Adds A Global Pricing Plan To Wide Attack On Drug Prices, But Doubts Persist
Is Trump serious about lowering drug prices in the US? And even if he is, how far might his plans get?
Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE
How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: WTO reform, Sanders on the Saudis, package bomber suspect detained (presser at 2:30), midterm prognostications, Georgia ballots, GDP, consumer sentiment, Rolls Royce, Boeing, Tesla, IPCC and biofuel, cortisol, working memory, multitasking
Civilized Societies Don’t Call It Censorship, but Copyright
Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
US Stops Trade Talks With China: Posturing or Impasse?
The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
A Follow-Up on the Reasons for Prime Age Labor Force Non-Participation
Some surprising findings on why labor force participation of prime age men is flagging.
