2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Tropical Mockingbird (Mayan), Casa en Cuxtitali, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. “Some of the bird species that I…
Economic Models Ignoring “Look Out the Window” Climate Change Effects | naked capitalism
Yves here. In our Links feature, we’ve been featuring only a small subset of the extreme weather events of the last year. Even though destructive storms like Helene and Milton…
The Fight to Hold Executives and Boards Accountable Continues in Barclays and Bayer Appeals | naked capitalism
Below we’ve embedded New York appeals in court filings in two cases, Ezrasons v. Rudd (“Barclays”) and Haussmann v. Baumann (“Bayer”). Even though the particulars of executive and board misconduct,…
Norway, One of World’s Most Cashless Economies, Just Made It A Lot Easier, Rather Than Harder, to Pay With Cash | naked capitalism
Recent trends and developments in Northern Europe suggest the shift away from cash and toward purely digital payment systems may have reached its limits — at least for now. In…
Mapping the Solidarity Economy | naked capitalism
Yves here. I have mixed feelings about the developments described in this article. On the one hand, it’s encouraging to see that many initiatives in Chicago have either sprung up…
“So You Don’t Like Trump or Harris – Here’s Why It’s Still Best to Vote for One of Them” | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post very much annoyed me, and so I thought it might be entertaining for similarly annoyed readers to take it apart. The fact that it starts by…
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/10/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Tropical Mockingbird (Mayan), Reserva de la Biosfera Rio Celestun, Yucatán, Mexico. “Recorded in coastal desert scrub on the edge of…
Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans [Update] | naked capitalism
Netanyahu seems determined to lash out at any and all opponents, as if Yahweh or the US can bail him out of whatever mess results. We’ll turn first, and briefly,…
Links 10/10/2024 | naked capitalism
One thousand sausage dogs invade beach for meet-up BBC Severe solar storm could supercharge auroras across US, impact power grids, NOAA warns Space.com Is a repeat of the 2019 repo…
Satyajit Das: US Presidential Politics – The More They Bicker, the More They Stay the Same | naked capitalism
Yves here. In an analogy to Putin remarking how he has found US presidents make genuine-sounding commitments to improve relations with Russia, then renege due to presumed bureaucratic undermining, Satyajit…