2:00PM Water Cooler 3/28/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this is at present a little unbalanced, as am I, due to a late start. More soon! –lambert
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/27/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Red-winged Blackbird (California Bicolored) Moonglow Dairy (Fri-Sun only; closed Mon-Thur), Monterey, California, United States. “Chorus
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged), Stauffer’s Marsh, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States. “Male Red-winged Blackbird calling and
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I had to cope with Trump’s latest escape. They really shouldn’t break stories just as I’m starting Water
Links 3/24/2024 | naked capitalism
Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms NBC Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join parade of insiders selling tech stocks FT
Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism”
For those of you who have not seen Matt Taibbi’s piece on Google’s threat to demonetize us over flawed, even nonsensical AI-generated charges against a
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day American Robin (migratorius Group), Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad de México, Mexico. * * * In Case
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/21/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day American Robin, Libertytown, Frederick, Maryland, United States. “Very quiet vocalization at close range. Dawn song.”
Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War?
Yves here. Jomo describes the hypocrisy of advanced economies (with Western-dominated international institutions as amplifiers and enforcers) who opposed emerging nations engaging in industrial policy,
When It Comes to Fighting Russian Diamonds, the Jewish Diamond Trade and De Beers Are a Busted Flush
Yves here. I must confess to having undue interest in this topic by virtue of having a tiny window into what was then and probably