The false narrative that made personal bankruptcy law so hellish
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Trump’s Bogus Infrastructure Plan Takes the U.S. Further Down the Road of Rentier Capitalism
The public-private partnerships Trump proposes are a sick neoliberal joke.
Treasury Proposes Dubious, Untested Chapter 14 Bankruptcies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.
Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Onward Together, Census, purchasing managers flash, oil, Walmart, Amazon, DHL, debt collection, exercise, elder tech
New JAMA Study Shows that Electronic Health Records Do Not Reduce Administrative Costs
New study on the EHR debacle shows that our multiple payer system creates the complexity that prevents cost-saving and makes EHRs so hard to implement
Exxon’s Conspiracy Charges Aim To Derail Climate Lawsuits
ExxonMobil is engaged in unprecedented efforts to sue and harass in court those are investigating and suing the company over global warming
Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains
Larry Summers and Anna Stansbury challenge the idea that workers getting a smaller cut of the productivity gains pie is due to technology.
Law Professor Proposes Bringing Back Indentured Servitude
Indentured servitude is the new idea for how to get immigrants to come to American at less than minimum wage pay.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/20/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I started today filled with good intentions, and then got a late start. I will add more material in a bit! –lambert UPDATE 2:52PM All done! Trade “China’s got a trade problem that can’t be solved by Belt and Road” [South China Morning Post]. “That’s Belt and Road […]
Do Russiagate Skeptics Go Too Far?
A Russiagate debate.
Davos: Alive or Dead?
Politicians and economists are meeting at Davos, but as times change, does neoliberalism retain its cachet?
