Today’s Water Cooler: Currency practices, Pelosi’s plans, polarized electorate, Georgia Governor, Iowa, minority rule, industrial production, housing market, gold, apparel, water in Latin America, #MeToo, the police and protest, Melvyn Bragg, dogs
Friday, June 13, 2025
Sears’ Terminal Slide: Bankruptcy and Likely Liquidation
Bankruptcy can only restructure debts; it cannot revive Sears’ mutilated brands and bring back mauled customers.
Why CalPERS Matters
Why CalPERS’ fall from being a sophisticated player and force for reform is an important lesson.
Brexit: Things Are Always Darkest Before They Go Completely Black
Don’t kid yourself that the current relative calm on the Brexit front is a good thing.
New Study Highlights Collapse of Insect Populations
Very sobering news on the insect front. Species die-off is progressing faster than you probably thought.
Gaius Publius: IPCC Releases Climate Report — First Thoughts
The latest IPCC report says we are cooking our collective goose, and hardly anyone seems to react.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/15/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread
#MeToo Under the Golden Arches at McDonald’s
#MeToo on Capitol Hill, and #MeToo at McDonald’s
Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – The Best Daily Paper
Naked Capitalism is the best news source….for independent thinkers.
How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’
contemporary American business and economic culture has a moral framework: neoliberalism. This framework is dependably orthogonal to the last 50,000 years of moral norms and traditions.
Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain
Bad Brexit news just got worse.
Rethinking AI Through the Politics of 1968
All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
