Monday, July 21, 2025
Brexit Stalls: Talks Deadlocked, Repeal Bill Postponed; Beginning of the End of No Deal Denialism?
No Brexit deal looks like the most likely outcome, as the UK side is only starting to look at how disastrous that would be.
Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Spain Constitutional Reform Trial Balloon: Bona Fide or Headfake to Split Catalonia?
Is a rumor the Spain is considering Constitutional reforms in response to the crisis in Catalonia merely a gambit to isolate the separatists?
The Best Part of This Week
What you’ve told us this week about why this site and the community you’ve created matter to you.
Confirming First Boston Meetup Next Thursday, October 19
Providing details for our next meetup in Boston as well as confirming coming meetups.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: Bombardier v Boeing, NAFTA, Puerto Rico, Warren, Sanders, Charlottesville, Lancaster, employment, working class America
John Helmer: Lunatic Russia-Hating in Washington Is 70 Years Old. It Started with Joseph Alsop, George Kennan and the Washington Post
The upper class origins of Russia-hating in the US.
How Naked Capitalism Got Me to Run for Office
How Naked Capitalism enabled a reader to act on promise to help those victimized by CalPERS’ bureaucracy.
Does Catalonia Have a Right to Secede?
Why the question of secession for Catalonia, or Scotland, or Quebec, isn’t easy to decide, practically and morally.
Trump Administration Picks Bizarre Fight With IMF Over Report Backing Taxing the Rich
The IMF makes a careful case for more redistribution.
On the Cost of Gun Ownership
Economists debate guns.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Puerto Rico, Russian’s troll game is strong, job losses, diamond bullion, drones, health care, Thelonius Monk
“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
