Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The Carbon Bubble and the Pricing of Bank Loans
Neglecting the possibility that fossil fuel reserves can become ‘stranded’ could result in a ‘carbon bubble’ as fossil fuel firms become overvalued.
How Institutional Dysfunction Has Enabled Poor Economic Policy Thinking
How economic research practices and the role of academic journals helped create and reinforced an orthodoxy that was able to miss that the crisis was coming.
Do Fewer Settlements by Pharmaceutical Companies Mean Even Less Accountability for Their Execs?
Drug company settlements with the Feds, which never were very tough to begin with, are also becoming less frequent.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Automobile imports, “Blue Wave” already cresting?, California primaries, Teachout runs for NY AG, Our Revolution, durable goods, consumer sentiment, DNA, ’80s home robots
US Supreme Court Ordered Desegregation, then Conservatives Worked to Demolish Public Education
How desegregation led to a concerted attack on public education.
Eyewitness Sketches Provide ‘Stormy’ Results, Can Lead to False Convictions
On the shortcomings of eyewitness memories, and in particular, forensic sketches based them.
PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits
Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread.
Salient Economic Characteristics of the Counties that Flipped to Trump, Sorted by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and an economic message for Democrats.
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fifteen: Uber’s Q1 Results – Reporters Show They Aren’t Up to Reading Financials
What was the real story in Uber’s first quarter results?
Here’s How Money Is Destroying the World Through Addiction
See this problem for what it is: A loosely organized group of global addicts getting together to figure out ways to enrich each other financially.
