At Angry Bear and other sites a common proposal in comments is to bring increasing amounts of water from other watersheds into the area or desalination. It often stays at an abstract and macro level, or as a pitch for conservation at the urban/suburban level for low water volume devices to use at home. Surely […]

Via Daily Kos comes this reminder of a local issue reflecting national politics: One year and two months after the idea was first floated, legislation to rezone Berkeley’s Historic Civic Center, including the US Post Office property at 2000 Allston Way, became law last night. Why is this of interest to anyone outside of Berkeley? […]

by New Deal democrat                (re-posted from Bonddad blog with permission from the author) The unemployment rate as a leading indicator for wage growth One of the most pronounced issues in the US economy generally is the stagnation of wages since the turn of the Millennium, and specifically the […]

Yves Smith last year October 2013 pointed to the law suit by Carmen Segarra: On Thursday, a former bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Carmen Segarra, filed a suit (embedded at the end of this post) against the New York Fed and several of its employees alleging, among other things, improper […]

by New Deal democrat         (re-posted with permission from Bondadd blog) Sadly, Ed Yardeni is the Wanker of the Day – wage stagnation edition Dr. Ed Yardeni has some clickbait up at his blog titled, The Wage Stagnation Myth. Yardeni is a highly-regarded financial markets analyst, but this is just sad. He writes […]

by Dale Coberly VERY SHORT POST ON SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has issued a “call for papers” with suggestions for “fixing” SSDI. I expect that by “fixing” they mean cutting people off and getting them back to work. After all, even people on IV’s could work as telephone […]