A few thousand votes lost in Trump Country could swing the election.
Monday, September 30, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Routh pleads innocent; Party control of the ballot; IAM/Boeing talks halt on defined-benefit pensions. ~
The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot
The Eric Adams indictment involves the abuse of small donations to obtain illegal matches and may go well beyond Turkiye donors
The Pentagon Goes to School
The battle for the soul of American science.
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: West’s Colossal Failure: Peace Summit in Switzerland, US Decline, Rise of BRICS
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, in fine form, discuss the remarkable US success in driving its strategic rivals into alliances.
Rethinking US Foreign Policy for a Multipolar World
Imagining a new set of American values with the help of Whip Randolph’s “One Disease, One Cure.”
Brown Bananas, Crowded Ports, Empty Shelves: What to Expect if There’s a Big Dockworkers Strike in the US
East and Gulf coast dockworkers are about to strike against low wages, unsafe working conditions and the threat of automation while the ruling class demands Collective Biden to intervene.
UPDATED: Hezbollah Confirms Nasrallah Is Dead; Netanyahu Condemned Over Massive Beirut Bombing
While Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah survived an attack in Beirut, Israel may still get the regional war it wants.
TaxCast on Green Laundering, Combatting Big Corporate Tax Dodging with Joseph Stiglitz, EU Competition Minister Margrethe Vesterger
A look at corporate misbehavior, here extreme tax avoidance and green laundering, and the progress of efforts to combat it.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday charts: The election (tied), and Covid (improved); Kamala’s speeches on economics; New 737 malfunction (rudder pedals) discovered as negotiators back at the table ~
Fall Fashion’s Economic Forecast
A sampling of fall/winter women’s frocks does not make for an upbeat economic forecast.
