How student debt is killing its host.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Melting Ice Could Release Hazardous Waste from Abandoned Cold War Site
Melting Greenland ice will release chemical and some radioactive nasties from an old US Cold War base. Expect more of this sort of thing.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Kamala Harris, Schiff memo, Janus case, new homes, Dropbox, Medicare Extra, poverty, student debt, gut biome
Trump SEC Fails to Pursue Aggressive Deregulatory Agenda (Albeit from Previous Pathetic Baseline)
WSJ reports Trump SEC has failed to pursue an aggressive deregulatory agenda; legislation necessary to disable securities framework further.
Dire Consequences of Ignoring Trade in Climate Change Targets: On Track to 3.5 C Temperature Increase by 2100
Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.
Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon: Lowering the Nuclear Threshold and Other Follies of the New Nuclear Posture Review
New Pentagon Nuclear Posture Review makes nuclear war more likely, as a logical extension of policies launched by Trump’s predecessor.
It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Supreme Court Narrows Dodd-Frank SEC Whistleblower Protections
Supreme Court’s whistleblower protections decision may lead employees to call the SEC rather than risk an internal corporate complaint.
Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders transcript, DCCC, Thomas Frank, robot cars at the carwash, cobalt, Maersk, Tesla, Snap, bees, quantum messages
