- — 2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2024
- ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; who engineered the bait and switch?; Kamala and Lina Khan; abolish your lawn ~
- — Looking for Long Covid: A Clash of Definition and Study Design
- Influential studies from the VA St. Louis take a broad view of long Covid. Not every expert agrees with the approach.
- — Economy Re-Accelerates in Q2. Our Drunken Sailors Splurge on Durable Goods, Investment Jumps, Federal Gov Undoes Blip
- The US economy looks a bit perky. Party on! But will the Fed continue to apply the interest rate brakes?
- — Links 7/26/2024
- — Scandal Erupts in Germany As Leaked Documents Confirm Government’s “Pandemic of Unvaccinated” Claim Was a Lie
- The newly published files contain "countless explosive details that were intended to be kept secret from the public."
- — Israel Economy Bleeding Out as Damage Compounds
- Israel 's economy is buckling due to its campaign against Palestinians. But despite what may be irreparable damage, it is not turning back.
- — AI Financial Crises
- Yes, Virginia, AI, like older forms of automated trading, has a nasty propensity to cause crises.
- — 2:00PM Water Cooler 7/25/2024
- ~ Today's Water Cooler: politics, syndemics; Biden's post-defenestration speech; Litmus tests for Kamala (Palestine, anti-trust); trad wives; employee ownership ~
- — Suicide Squad: U.S. Troops Are Losing a War with Their Deadliest Enemy
- Suicide is the leading cause of death for active duty and recently soldiers. The most likely contributor is not what you might suspect.
- — Links 7/25/2024
- — ‘Guilty of Genocide’: 135 Congress Members Boycott Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress
- The US Congress stands shoulder to shoulder with war criminal Netanyahu, even with more dissent than ever.
- — Net-Zero Ambitions Hit Major Roadblocks in Europe, UK, and US
- The projected failure to meet insufficiently ambitious climate change goals like net zero should come as no surprise.
- — More Poverty for the Poor
- The position of both poor nations and the poorest income groups globally has been deteriorating.
- — 2:00PM Water Cooler 7/24/2024
- ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; impeachment articles against Harris (frivolous); how Harris grabbed Biden's war chest; only Google can search Reddit; the wheel of emotions. ~
- — The Global Semiconductor Talent Crunch: How Protectionism Backfired
- Oopsie! US semiconductor protectionism looks to have reduced the size of the pool of needed workers and experts.
- — Links 7/24/2024
- — Pitchbook Report Attempting to Defend Private Equity Role in Healthcare Suffers from Fundamental, Fatal Analytical Flaw
- A recent report from Pitchbook commits data crimes in attempting to depict private equity management of healthcare companies as benign.
- — ‘Woah!’: FTC Applauded for Launching Inquiry Into Surveillance Pricing
- The FTC targets surveillance pricing, which is privacy-risking data harvesting used to charge higher prices.
- — More Guns, Less Butter: How Will the EU Wed Austerity to Militarization?
- Will Euro defense bonds be the answer?
- — 2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2024
- ~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; (1) Pelosi and the Twenty Fifth Amendment; establishment voices at the Atlantic; Boeing cluster continues ~
- — US Voters Want Change, Biden’s Exit Hasn’t Fixed That
- Communities ravaged by neoliberal capitalism want real change. Candidates like Biden make Trump look more able to deliver it.
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