Are Millennials ruining the Empire?
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The Michael Hudson Report: The “Next” Financial Crisis and Public Banking as the Response
Michael Hudson explains how we’re still in the crisis that started in 2007-2008.
The Explicable Mystery of the National Debt
Why US Treasury bond issuance and Federal deficits are functionally not debt at all.
Los Angeles Times Slams CalPERS for Vetting Failures That Led to Exit of CFO Asubonten for Resume Misrepresentations, Doubts Whether CEO Marcie Frost Has Made Needed Changes
Mike Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times weighs in on the fiasco of CalPERS’ hiring of Charles Asubonten.
Mexico’s Next President Will Pour Billions Into Oil
AMLO’s plan seems to be injecting public money into the energy sector alongside what private industry is already trying to do.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and Obama, more Facebook panic, employment, doctors and “moral injury,” political data projects, temporarily open thread
“Wait Times” and The Neoliberal Assault on Canadian Medicare
The neoliberal playbook and the attempts to privatize Canadian Medicare
How the Dominant Business Paradigm Turns Nice People into Psychopaths
Most of us are not conscienceless psychopaths but when we make investing decisions we often act as if we are.
What Hope for the Millennial Generation in Politics?
How do millennial voters differ from those of other age cohorts?
Bill Black: Mankiw Whiffs on “Learning the Right Lessons from the Financial Crisis”
Bill Black debunks a book that tries to relitigate the crisis by denying that Lehman was insolvent.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: GMO and trade, IA-01, VA-05, the Democrat Party, social democracy/democratic socialism, paper ballots, personal income, manufacturing, bees, Strafford Beer, getting to sleep
Misperceptions About Immigration and Support for Redistribution
A large scale survey in six countries found that respondents typically had inaccurate ideas about the level of immigration, but thinking about migrants made them less supportive of redistribution policies.
