An example of how police are heavy-handed even in affluent, low-crime areas.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Why Are Profit-Making Factories Closing Across England?
The curious case of England’s closing factories shows the need for industrial strategy to counter rampant short-termism.
Net Neutrality: The Congressional Review Act, Supportive Constituencies (and Injunctions)
The tiered Internet, a head count for the CRA, and the constituencies that the abolition of net neutrality will harm (including knitters)
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread, ’til I get it together!
As the Tourists Return, Half of Puerto Rico Remains Without Power, Thanks to PROMESA, while Workers Leave, and Vulture Capital Circles
The story of the missing telephone poles, the Puerto Rican exodus, and the Aurelius case, where nobody knows anything.
Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Even China is Buying U.S. LNG
Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border
Mexico is now facing its own Standing Rock-like moment as the Yaqui Tribe challenges Sempra Energy’s Agua Prieta pipeline between Arizona and the Mexican state of Senora.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Happy New Year, trade, Warren and Sanders, populism, Indivisble, manufacturing, Silicon Valley “cuddle puddles,” trees
The Year in Money
A review of money issues…and mainly not bitcoin.
Lee Camp: Let Me Fix That For The New York Times – Police Kill Another Innocent Man
A recent New York Times story on yet another police killing as a case study in biased reporting.
Why Inequality Predicts Homicide Rates Better Than Any Other Variable
Why increases in inequality lead to increases in the rate of homicide.
Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
