Pass the popcorn. It looks like CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost tangled with the wrong person in the form of Elisabeth Bourqui.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Experts Declare Physician Burnout ‘a Public Health Crisis’ – and Health IT a Significant Pathogen
Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/23/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Sanders, marginal top rates, Trump and church-goers, manufacturing, architectural billings, flying cars, eyeglasses, global warming and aerosols, Greenland ice, Bryan Singer and R. Kelley, LA teachers strike, venture capital, particle physics
MMT’s Opening
Another go at clearing up press and pundit misrepresentations of MMT.
Brexit: May’s Sweatbox
A short overview of Constitutional and procedural issues that impact Brexit.
Medicare For All — The Democratic Party Audition for 2020
The debate over Medicare for All is forcing Team Dem to show its true colors.
IEA Chief: EVs Are Not The End Of The Oil Era
Why EVs are way overhyped as a way to reduce oil use.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Warren, Harris, Sanders, “brunch,” cognitive illiberalism, existing home sales, Grab, Apple, concentration and Silicon Valley, Canadian Medicare v. ObamaCare, the Sacklers and their museums, LA teachers strike, government shutdown, socialist feminism, Buke & Gasse
Brexit’s Primitive Passions Could Bring Havoc to Ireland – and Far Beyond
Brexit is revealing the bad side of some Brits.
Kamala Harris, Opportunist to the Core: Launches Prez Bid on MLK Day, Since She Has to Remind People She’s Black After Criminalizing Truancy, Keeping CA Prison Rolls Up to Provide Cheap Labor; Sends Tone-Deaf, Narcissistic Campaign E-mail
Kamala Harris seems to assume that voters are easy marks.
Bill Black: AOC# and MMT Spook the AEI
Right wingers go on tilt as AOC talks up MMT.
2:00PM Water Cooler Martin Luther King Day 2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
AOC’s Green New Deal as Politics
Why AOC’s Select Committee for a Green Deal Deal would be an electoral winner.
