~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday’s charts: RCP averages (good week for Trump); Covid (XEC has entered the chat); What, again, was Kamala thinking?! Boeing files unfair labor practice charge with NLRB against machinists (wowsers) ~
Recent Items
Saturday, October 12, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 128 Comments »
Economic Models Ignoring “Look Out the Window” Climate Change Effects
Supposed forecasting mavens are simply ignoring the real economy effects, like poor harvests, of climate change.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:55 am | 16 Comments »
Links 10/11/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 191 Comments »
Norway, One of World’s Most Cashless Economies, Just Made It A Lot Easier to Pay With Cash
Recent trends and developments in Northern Europe suggest the shift away from cash and toward purely digital payment systems may have reached its upper limits — at least for now.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 5 Comments »
Mapping the Solidarity Economy
A worker-owned collective helps Chicagoans find mutual aid-based organizations, in the face of a weakening economy and social safety nets.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:57 am | 6 Comments »
“So You Don’t Like Trump or Harris – Here’s Why It’s Still Best to Vote for One of Them”
An academic contends that protest and third party votes are counterproductive.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:21 am | 143 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler; Harris leads in the burbs (poll); 2024 state round-up; Boeing negotiations stalled; and another QA debacle; “The illusion of information adequacy” ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 92 Comments »
The Fight to Hold Executives and Boards Accountable Continues in Barclays and Bayer Appeals
An update on two cases, one against Barclays, the other Bayer executives and directors, which seek accountability in New York courts.
Topics: CEO compensation, Corporate governance, Europe, Investment management, Legal, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:55 am | 8 Comments »
Links 10/10/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 152 Comments »
Satyajit Das: US Presidential Politics – The More They Bicker, the More They Stay the Same
US presidential candidates promise policy choices but have little room to manoeuvre. Ergo, politics turns into a contest like American Idol
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:11 am | 29 Comments »
Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily
A new paper in Nature finds that exceeding a 1.5°C increase in global temperature is more deadly and durable than previously thought.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method, Species loss
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:31 am | 31 Comments »
11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live By
Seeking reader reactions to recommendations on how to engage in “media activism”.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:59 am | 35 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; fun with maps: Helene and Milton could make Pennsylvania the key; Kamala has a beer with Stephen Colbert; on hurricanes; Response to Helene in NC; Boeing talks break down as management walks away from the table. ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 83 Comments »
Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans [Update]
Netanyahu, drunk on his power and his love of destruction, keeps upping the ante.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:10 pm | 116 Comments »
Links 10/9/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 162 Comments »