Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Climate Change: New York AG Takes Exxon to Trial This Week; Massachusetts Poised to Follow

 

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New York begins climate change trial against Exxon Monday; meanwhile, Massachusetts is readying its own action.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators]

— Links 10/20/19

 

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[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?

 

at 10/20/19 4:05am

Justin Mikulka continues his excellent coverage of fracking for DeSmogBlog.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams]

— Links 10/19/19

 

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[Category: Links]

— SUVs Are Back, and They’re Spewing a Boggling Amount of Carbon

 

at 10/19/19 4:54am

SUVs illustrate how the US is rejecting greenhouse gas reduction.

[Category: Environment, Global warming, Regulations and regulators]

— Impoverished Economics? Unpacking the Economics Nobel Prize

 

at 10/19/19 3:23am

Yves here. Even thought the mainstream media, as usual, duly applauded the winners of this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, there’s been less attention paid to the recipients than usual and far more criticism, some very measured, others more critical. The winners helped develop and promote an approach to development economics they called “randomized control […]

[Category: Dubious statistics, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The dismal science]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/18/2019

 

at 10/18/19 12:00pm

Today's Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg (!), Buttigieg, Gabbard, Sanders, Warren, impeachment (Mulvaney and Biden), leading indicators, Extinction Rebellion, water follies, Amazon, feet loaf

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Links 10/18/19

 

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[Category: Links]

— Brexit: Over to Parliament

 

at 10/18/19 4:45am

Hand to hand Brexit combat is on.

[Category: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, UK]

— Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want

 

at 10/18/19 2:09am

Even if you beleve that taxes fund federal spending, a new study shows it is not necessary to raise taxes to pay for Medicare for All.

[Category: Guest Post, Health care, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Taxes]

— Marshall Auerback: Will the GOP Become the Party of Blue-Collar Conservatism?

 

at 10/17/19 11:44pm

Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?

[Category: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/17/2019

 

at 10/17/19 12:00pm

Today's Water Cooler: Open thread

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Are Cognitive Frameworks Hard-Coded in Language Driving Humanity to Crisis?

 

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Is language, or more specifically, notions strongly represented in major modern languages, a big culprit in our inability to contend with self-induced existential threats?

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Social values]

— Links 10/17/19

 

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[Category: Links]

— Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas

 

at 10/17/19 4:00am

Libra is going nowhere fast.

[Category: Banking industry, Currencies, Free markets and their discontents, Payment system, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation]

— A Bitter(Sweet) Pill: The Impacts of Private Provision of Medicaid

 

at 10/17/19 1:56am

A study on Texas turning Medicaid over to private contractors shows mixed results, which is better than most critics would expect. But does this study attribute bennies to privatization that aren't justified?

[Category: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Privatization, Social policy]

— Automation Armageddon: a Legitimate Worry?

 

at 10/16/19 10:38pm

Yves here. Readers will notice a marked disconnect between Michael Olenick’s grim account of the impact of the automation of the early industrial era on workers’ lives as to his more sanguine posture for the future. One way to reconcile the two is that major shift in automation can have significant transition costs in terms […]

[Category: Guest Post]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/16/2019

 

at 10/16/19 12:00pm

Today's Water Cooler: Turkey and automobile production, Biden, Sanders squad endorsements, Warren, the debate, impeachment, retail sales, business inventories, housing market, retail, Dutch tulips, the Cloud, OS X mail bug, shale, autumm leaves, GM strike, brain tuning, Pumpkin Spice for Men

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— The People’s Money (Part 1)

 

at 10/16/19 7:55am

An explanation of the Federal Reserve money system.

[Category: Banking industry, Credit markets, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Payment system]

— Links 10/16/19

 

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[Category: Links]

— Trump’s Border Wall is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout

 

at 10/16/19 3:04am

How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.

[Category: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams, Surveillance state]

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