Today’s Water Cooler: “Golden showers” and shock doctrine, inflation, housing, co-ops, political risk, Tanzanian seeds, lost planet, shrooms
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Lessons From the Demise of the TPP
Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Calling Readers! Fight for Corruption-Busting SC Treasurer Curt Loftis As GOP Tries to End His Pension Oversight Role
Pension-corruption-fighter/state Treasurer Curt Loftis is under attack. Urge everyone you know in South Carolina to come to his defense.
Wolf Richter: What’s Going on with the Banks? Citi Cuts Goldman to “Sell,” after Goldman Cut Citi to “Neutral”
Citi and Goldman downgrades suggest the Trump trade may be overdone.
How ’60 Minutes’ Became a Pentagon Mouthpiece for Drone War
Drone warfare as an example of how the military uses overly-cozy news outlets to sell its pet initiatives.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2016
Today’s Water Cooler: Obama’s legacy, “Russian hacking,” Sessions, Tillerson, Sanders and oligarchy, Brock, small business optimism, Apple
Tom Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can’t Levitate a Broken Economy
How central banks’ policy remedies have taken big steps backwards.
Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI
Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Obamacare: Republican Leaders Trying to Quell Revolting Senators
Enough Republicans are concerned about the downside of simply ending Obamacare to put a brake on efforts to repeal it.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/9/2016
Today’s Water Cooler: 2016 post mortem, labor market conditions, many bezzles, co-ops, Larsen ice shelf, Atlantic conveyer, precarious jobs
TrumpCare, Pre-Existing Conditions, and “Continuous Coverage”
“Continuous Coverage” is the Republican solution for avoiding a death spiral by covering pre-existing conditions. How bad will it be?
