Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Links 8/4/2020

 

at 8/4/20 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 3 – Recovery Expectations Were Always Dreadfully Wrong

 

at 8/4/20 4:00am

Not only is the airline industry in desperate shape, but its executives have made its bad situation worse, increasing resolution costs for all bagholders.

[Category: Guest Post, Investment outlook, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams]

— How’s Your Economy, Small Businesses Death Watch Edition

 

at 8/4/20 2:25am

A reader query focused on small businesses.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Income disparity, Pandemic, The destruction of the middle class]

— Is Silicon Valley Nudging Us Towards an Authoritarian Future?

 

at 8/4/20 12:43am

Why it is not crazy to worry about Silicon Valley.

[Category: Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2020

 

at 8/3/20 12:00pm

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Rents Swoon in San Francisco, Other Expensive Cities, TX-OK Oil Patch Y/Y. But 23 Cities with Double-Digit Rent Increases

 

at 8/3/20 10:25am

Large-scale shifts triggered by work-from-home, staggering unemployment crisis, and oil-and-gas bust. Rents respond in real time.

[Category: Free markets and their discontents, Real estate]

— Links 8/3/2020

 

at 8/3/20 4:55am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— Homeowners Beware: Mortgage Servicers Still Can’t or Won’t Shoot Straight

 

at 8/3/20 4:00am

Mortgage servicers are still engaged the abuses they perpetrated in the foreclosure crisis.

[Category: Banking industry, Guest Post, Legal, Real estate]

— CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Made False, Felonious Financial Disclosure Report; More Proof of Lack of Compliance Under Marcie Frost

 

at 8/2/20 9:45pm

CIO Ben Meng demonstrates why CalPERS can't be trusted....even as the giant pension is pushing legislation to be able to make loans in secret.

[Category: Banana republic, CalPERS, Investment management, Legal, Politics]

— So What’s With Those Weird Seed Packets from China?

 

at 8/2/20 2:55pm

Oddities in the Chinese seeds story (and yes, people planted them).

[Category: China, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post]

— Links 8/2/2020

 

at 8/2/20 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany

 

at 8/2/20 4:45am

In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed joke is a powerful act of resistance.

[Category: Europe, Guest Post, Politics]

— Links 8/1/2020

 

at 8/1/20 4:55am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up

 

at 8/1/20 1:14am

Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.

[Category: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia, UK]

— The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools

 

at 8/1/20 12:22am

How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.

[Category: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Social policy]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020

 

at 7/31/20 12:00pm

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

[Category: Water Cooler]

— Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It

 

at 7/31/20 7:55am

NYT piece on contact tracing doesn't see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.

[Category: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Surveillance state, The destruction of the middle class]

— Links 7/31/2020

 

at 7/31/20 4:55am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update

 

at 7/31/20 2:10am

A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method]

— Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump

 

at 7/31/20 1:18am

Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge

[Category: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class]

— Kamala Harris or Susan Rice? The Veepstakes Appears To Have Kicked Out Two Truly Terrible Choices

 

at 7/31/20 12:40am

If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn't unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.

[Category: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics]

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