Trump speaks an inconvenient truth about Puerto Rico. How long before his minders walk it back?
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/3/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: KORUS, Susan Collins, Russia hysteria, coincident indicators, gerrymandering, lithium, Amazon, Tesla, contract workers
Cryptos Fear Credit
Cryptocurrency fans have a perverse and badly misinformed loathing of the role of credit in payments and money systems.
Catalonia Blinks in Secession Staredown
Despite staging large-scale protests on Monday, Catalonia just revealed it is holding a weak set of cards in it secession efforts.
U.S. Shale Isn’t As Strong As It Appears
Shale production may stay in the doldrums until oil prices move higher and stay there.
Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness
Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
Lee Camp: Naked Capitalism – Making the Corporate Media Very, Very Nervous
Naked Capitalism is a critical part of the information war that the traditional, corporate-owned media is losing, and deserves to lose.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/2/2017
Today’s Water Cooler: Mark Zuckerberg and open thread
The Situation in Puerto Rico: Power, Water, and PROMESA
Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
How to Preserve Fundamental Rights on the Internet: a Guide
The Spanish government’s crackdown in Catalonia has shown that everyone needs tools to guarantee their fundamental rights online.
Standoff in Catalonia
Short term, Catalonia and Madrid are at loggerheads. The next phase is likely an escalation of violence as neither side backs down. ,
Bill Black: Marriage and the Jobs Guarantee
Conservatives are trying to blame low rates of marriage among the young on anything but the state of the economy and the job market.
