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 […]
Ernst likes FEMA and wants to keep it! So does her father. This even though some blue states benefit from it sometimes, too! Go figure. She won’t even squawk about appropriations for it. Then again, she’s a turkey, not a chicken. So she might cluck. —- APPENDED: From the Comments thread here: EMichael / October 8, 2014 10:55 […]
I have written that the Dow will orbit around the 16,800 level and not go much higher from there. My view is based on Effective Demand causing profit rates to peak and decline. Today we see the Dow back down to 16,719 on worries of global growth and profits which start coming out tomorrow. As […]
I was reading today Paul Krugman’s article, Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing? He is painting a picture of how the crisis formed and secular stagnation followed. It seems that he is trying to paint a complete picture so that anyone could understand the crisis completely just from reading his post. However, he is missing an […]
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? […]
The title of this post describes the main message of Pavlina Tcherneva’s research. This video is a “must see”. If her message becomes part of the policy approach for the next recovery, we will see much better net social benefits for society after the next recession. (video link)
I clicked on this story at Daily Kos to have a laugh about how unskewing isn’t just for conservatives any more and am very alarmed to find myself almost partly convinced. I confess that I have fallen into at least the near occasion of unskewing. Can We Really Trust YouGov? by Tyler Yeargain If you […]
Note to self: read more Jeff Madrik (hey he wrote books which I haven’t read) but for now read his very interesting and stimulating Op-ed “Our Misplaced Faith in Free Trade” do click the link. After the jump, I will steal fair use the whole op-ed with my comments (is that called fisking ?) but […]
I just sent the following to David Streitfeld, the main reporter covering this dispute for the New York Times. If any of my gentle readers has an answer, I’d love to hear it: Dear Mr. Streitfeld: What I have never found in any coverage (perhaps I’ve missed it?): What is the precise dispute between Amazon and […]