Bad news on the carbon emissions front.
Friday, August 8, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Trump tariffs, Clinton and Pritzker, leading indicators, shipping, Amazon, Tesla, pedestrians and robot cars, water, birds, psychopaths
Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More
Chomsky discusses a wide range of hot topics.
Was Carillion’s Collapse the Beginning of the End for the UK’s Outsourcers?
Two large British outsourcers are also on the verge of collapse, and the vultures are circling.
Another CalPERS Victory: CalPERS to Publish “Court Reporter Style” Transcripts
CalPERS commits to publishing its open meeting transcripts.
Humanity’s Meat and Dairy Intake Must Be Cut in Half by 2050 to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change
An update on meat consumption as an environmental hazard.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Illinois results, the suburbs, Facebook data crisis, demographics, architectural billings, Grenfell Tower, complexity, free-range parenting, Yahoo
Germany’s Pivot From Russian Gas Will Be Costly
Why Germany’s plans to hurt Russia via its gas exports may not go all that far.
Andrew Bacevich Shellacks the New York Times’ Usefully Idiotic Coverage of America’s Never-Ending Wars
A well-argued dressing down of the New York Times for its less than illuminating reporting on America’s military adventurism.
CalPERS (for Once) Does the Right Thing, Votes to Retain Transcription of Meetings
Mirable dictu! CalPERS board members vote to preserve its practice of transcribing board meetings, an important component of accountability and transparency.
Wolf Richter: Then Why Is Anyone STILL on Facebook?
If you’ve created an account, you can never escape Facebook. But you can at least stop making things worse for yourself.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/20/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I apologize for missing yesterday’s Water Cooler; I slipped a mental cog and got the day wrong. (I work not on calendar time, but on Naked Capitalism time, and when I mentally filed that I was “on for Links Monday” I thought “Oh, I’ll do Water Cooler after Links.” […]
Whistleblower Woes: Retaliation
SEC makes record whistleblower award, while meanwhile an Ethics and Compliance Initiative survey reports retaliation rates for reporting of corporate misconduct have doubled.
