Sunday, February 8, 2026
The Permian Is A Double-Edged Sword For Oil Majors
There are still questions about the profitability of the Chevron’s assets in West Texas.
The Debate Over Tactics In the Modern Left: Radical Opposition or Strategic Inclusive Engagement?
Revisiting a classic debate over the tactics for achieving political/societal change.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Huawei, Inslee, Booker, Pelosi on #MedicareForAll, AOC staffers, personal income, manufacturing, consumer sentiment, UPS, Tesla, algos, psychoterratic and shinrin yoku, toilet paper, unions and GND, Walmart greeters, diversity, quiet, groundwater on Mars
China Syndrome Redux: New Results on Global Labour Reallocation
What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Bezos Admits His Fortune Is Due to Public Infrastructure….Even as He Fought Paying a Homeless Tax in Seattle, Shakes Down Cities for Subsidies
Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
The Rapid Victory of the West Virginia Teacher Strike Shows What Happens When Progressives Join the Fight Against School Privatization
What lessons can we draw from the success of the latest West Virginia teachers’ strike?
Deregulating Banks Fueled Speculation, Not Productive Investment
More proof that letting banks have their way is not such a good idea…at least for non-financiers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, electoral college, Sanders, Harris, reparations, GDP, jobless claims, manufacturing, Brexit pallets (!), Stamps.com, Amazon, Contently, Facebook, Apple, Green New Deal, floods, psilocybin, Tcherneva, the Sacklers, gig economy, minimum wage
Developing Industry Standards Won’t Give AI a Conscience
Marc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). He tells us why they won’t work.
Cancer’s Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
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 […]
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.
