2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Affected person readers, after an sudden piece of excellent information, I broke discipine and took a (solo, Aranet4-metered) liquid lunch, so this Water Cooler is shorter than it needs to be, at the least initially. Sorry. –lambert. Including, my seized-up again is best, though not fully. The non-public anesthetic helped, although! And including, holy moley, that Boeing story (see underneath Stats). I obtained a bit wrapped across the axle doing it. However my head is down over the keyboard now!

Hen Track of the Day

Winter Wren, Ferd’s Lavatory, Hamilton, New York, United States. “Lengthy tune sort.”

Politics

“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order (Eighth Modification)

“Jeb Bush involves Trump’s protection after $355M fraud judgment: ‘Harm might cascade’” [FOX]. “Former Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got here to the protection of former President Trump in a Wall Road Journal op-ed slamming the current New York civil fraud courtroom case that ordered the forty fifth president to pay a $354.8 million wonderful plus curiosity. ‘Each American has a proper to be vital of Mr. Trump’s politics—one in every of us ran in opposition to him in 2016,” reads Bush’s op-ed, titled, “Elon Musk and Donald Trump Instances Imperil the Rule of Regulation.’ ‘…However equality earlier than the legislation is treasured, and these rulings signify a disaster not just for the soundness of our courts, however for the enterprise setting that has allowed the U.S. to prosper,” the opinion piece continued. ‘If these rulings stand, the harm might cascade by the economic system, creating worry of arbitrary enforcement in opposition to entrepreneurs who search public workplace or increase their voices as residents in a manner that politicians dislike.’ The column, which was co-authored by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, railed in opposition to the current monthslong civil fraud trial in opposition to Trump, which resulted in a virtually $355 million wonderful and bars Trump from working his enterprise in New York for 3 years.” • Palantir? Oy. Stepping into mattress with Jebbie is one factor, nevertheless it seems he introduced a pal….

“Decide Engoron’s retribution” [Washington Examiner]. “A incessantly made remark in regards to the trial was that inflating the on-paper worth of actual property is a reasonably widespread factor amongst New York Metropolis builders. Engoron appeared to concede that when he wrote, ‘Certainly, the widespread excuse that ‘everyone does it’ is all of the extra purpose to try for honesty and transparency and to be vigilant in imposing the principles.’ That gave the impression to be a concession that sure, overvaluing actual property isn’t a uncommon incidence. It additionally seems to be an inadvertent admission from the decide that the lawsuit was an instance of selective prosecution.” • Sooner or later, some opinion-haver must undergo Engoron’s idea of the case. All this piety about “the hurt that false statements inflict on {the marketplace}.” Seems like precisely the type of argument the worst type of business-friendly conservative might decide up and run with.

2024

Lower than a 12 months to go!

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Trump (R): “Fani Willis faces harrowing week amid Trump disqualification bid: What to know” [Washington Examiner]. The headline is a bit overblown, at the least for the fabric it presents. Key abstract: “Trump and the 14 remaining co-defendants are going through a 41-count indictment alleging they operated a prison enterprise to overturn the 2020 election. Willis’s workplace constructed a case that depends on a number of key occasions that allegedly present the previous president’s intention to overturn the election, together with a January 2021 name by which he requested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ‘discover’ sufficient votes to offset President Joe Biden’s victory.”

Trump (R): “Abcarian: MAGA Republicans pushing to question President Biden don’t appear to note the egg on their faces” [Los Angeles Times]. “Republicans thought they’d a smoking gun, a declare by a longtime, dependable FBI informant that Biden and his son Hunter had secretly accepted tens of millions of {dollars} from the Ukrainian pure fuel firm Burisma. Sadly for Planet MAGA — together with Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, impeachment decision writer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and your entire lineup of Fox Information hosts, who’ve been frothing on the mouth over this story — it was allegedly all a lie. The smoking gun is popping out to be an exploding cigar. And the informant? Not so dependable in any case. Final month, a federal grand jury indicted Alexander Smirnov, 43, on expenses he lied when he advised the FBI that the Bidens had gotten $5 million every from Burisma. Not solely that, in keeping with particular counsel David Weiss, who’s overseeing the probe into Hunter Biden’s funds, Smirnov was in all probability coached to create the story by operatives related to Russian intelligence in an effort to harm President Biden as he faces reelection, most certainly in opposition to Putin apologist former President Trump.” • So, if I’ve this appropriate, a long-time dependable FBI informant (no one appears to be disputing that half), seems to be a Russian asset? I’m not following this story intently, as a result of I’m nonetheless boggling at “Smirnov,” however isn’t a bit odd?

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Trump (R): “Trump’s demographic drawback” [Axios]. “If America have been dominated by previous, white, election-denying Christians who didn’t go to school, former President Trump would win the normal election in as massive of a landslide as his sweep of the primary 4 GOP contests…. Those that went to the polls mirrored Trump’s strengths: This was the oldest South Carolina GOP voters this century. (Chuck Todd) 60% of major voters have been white evangelical or born-again Christians. (CNN) That group isn’t remotely large enough to win a presidential election. He would wish to draw voters who’re extra various, extra educated and imagine his first loss was legit. South Carolina exit polls present he didn’t try this. That’s why Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate’s solely Black Republican, stays on Trump’s brief checklist for V.P A much bigger drawback but: Polls present these skeptics could be even much less more likely to swing his manner if he’s convicted of against the law — an actual chance amongst his 4 ongoing instances, insiders inform us. The technique: Trump’s marketing campaign says that within the battleground states the place the election will likely be determined, his message will enchantment far past the GOP base that propelled him to the nomination.” • That is the place I’m. There’s a lovely symmetry: Neither Trump’s base nor the Democrat PMC base are highly effective sufficient to win the election or, extra importantly, to manipulate. The “bundle of sticks” metaphor is helpful: Every social gathering wants so as to add sticks to its bundle (and neither social gathering, oddly, goes after non-voters. You’d suppose the Trump staff would suppose that manner, however perhaps the disciplined professionals of 2024 can’t suppose outdoors the field just like the randos of 2016 might).

Trump (R): “Donald Trump’s dominating GOP major efficiency doesn’t add up” [Heather Digby Parton, Salon]. “There’s a substantial faction of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters who merely can’t stand Donald Trump. Sure, he’s overwhelmingly fashionable amongst his MAGA base which makes up about three-quarters of the GOP and the vast majority of them are blindly dedicated to the person it doesn’t matter what he does. They aren’t simply keen about voting for him, they’re ecstatic…. Donald Trump can’t win the final election with simply his hardcore MAGA base. He should develop his coalition and he’s not getting that accomplished. In each state to date, he has underperformed expectations. Nevada was a really bizarre state of affairs with each a major and a caucus so it’s onerous to discern what the voters was saying there however in Iowa, New Hampshire and S. Carolina, a stable 40% voted in opposition to Trump. It’s a major in order that’s common. However who makes up that 40% is an issue for Trump. He’s fully misplaced self-identified liberals which isn’t shocking. However moderates have deserted him as properly, together with the GOP-leaning independents. And the continued shedding of faculty educated and suburban voters has not abated. It doesn’t matter a lot within the MAGA-centric GOP major, however Trump can’t afford to lose these voters within the normal election.” • With a hyperlink to the Axios article above. Parton, after all, as a great Democrat, doesn’t contemplate interesting to non-voters any greater than good Republicans do.

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Haley (R): “Nikki Haley says she’s a voice for dissatisfied voters: ‘I’m not doing this to be VP’” [USA Today]. “Haley’s not giving up, regardless of dropping each major contest to this point to former President Donald Trump. The previous South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has chosen to proceed standing for the numerous variety of Individuals who aren’t happy with the present front-runners. In South Carolina, she garnered roughly 40% of the vote, as she did in New Hampshire.” When you suppose the social norming amongst Republicans to vote for Trump is as robust because the social norming to not masks, then 40% isn’t a foul quantity. Extra: “‘I’m a Republican,’ she mentioned. ‘At this level I don’t know the way you translate that over. The explanation persons are gravitating in the direction of me is as a result of the tone on the prime issues and the way you speak about points issues. . They don’t need the division.” That’s attention-grabbing. However I’m unsure Haley has the gravitas to ship that message (any greater than, say, Harris, or Philips). Trump tried the rhetoric on for dimension, briefly. So it’s on the market. Extra: “‘And so I’m making an attempt to carry it to the place we are able to have an America that doesn’t have that. However that’s by the Republican Social gathering that I do that. So we’ll have to attend and see.’” As Dima would say. Extra: “”m not doing this to be VP. I’m not doing this to be a third-party candidate. I’m not doing this for my political profession. I’m doing it actually out of a love of America. And since I’m anxious about my children and everyone else’s children.’” • Once more, Haley lacks the gravitas to make that message stick. And the media wants the hatred, too. Hate means clicks.

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Biden (D): “Biden’s immigration silver lining” [Axios]. “Overseas-born staff now represent almost 19% of the labor pressure, up from 17.3% when President Biden took workplace. The current surge in unauthorized migrants will result in 1.7 million extra staff in 2024, in keeping with a current Congressional Price range Workplace evaluation. These new arrivals will assist the U.S. economic system develop by about $7 trillion over the subsequent decade. Greater than 3 million migrants are nonetheless within the nation who have been encountered on the southern border in the course of the Biden presidency. An extra a million arrived by way of ports of entry by new Biden applications counting on the expansive use of parole — a authorized mechanism that enables migrants with out visas to enter the U.S. An extra 3.7 million individuals have entered the U.S. by different authorized pathways, with the power to work, in keeping with administration estimates. A few of these new arrivals are captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which counts an extra 3 million foreign-born staff within the workforce underneath Biden. Don’t anticipate Biden to race to the rostrum to spotlight the hyperlink between elevated immigration and decrease inflation, in keeping with aides and advisers.” Then once more: “Former President Trump clearly needs to run on the problem, arguing that the inflow of low-skilled immigrants into the economic system has harm native-born staff.

‘The largest victims are African-Individuals, Hispanic Individuals, Asian Individuals,’ Trump mentioned at a rally in South Carolina earlier this month. ‘They’re getting decimated of their hourly wages.’ Wage progress has been the strongest for the underside quarter of staff, in keeping with the Atlanta Fed’s wage tracker. It’s onerous to argue that immigrants are miserable wages when common hourly earnings are rising and wages are outpacing inflation.” • No, it’s actually not. Do the phrases “much more” imply something do these individuals? How about that well-known demand curve?

Biden (D): “Michelle Obama: September Savior or ‘Suicide Mission’?” [The American Conservative]. Effectively value a learn. Finest model of this argument I’ve seen: “Overlook about docs; anybody who has cared for an growing old mum or dad with cognitive decline can see all of the indicators and is aware of what’s coming subsequent. Joe can’t bear in mind phrases, names, or dates, and walks stiffly together with his arms locked. He falls usually. He will get offended and cusses. It’s all there. Everyone knows what’s being hidden, similar to when Mother refuses her meals or rages somebody is after her cash. It isn’t a pleasing factor to observe, this infantilization of an individual you might have as soon as appeared as much as, however the decline is clear, and decline is a one-way avenue. It hurts, it actually does, whether or not it’s Mother or Joe Biden, to observe all of it figuring out there’s nothing that may be accomplished… It’s one factor to elucidate away Mother’s habits on the dinner-table, one other when addressing nationwide safety…. If Joe is unfit to face trial for his informal misuse of categorised paperwork, then he’s unfit to be president.” And as for Michelle: “Michelle Obama has the recognition and name- and face-recognition to step in on the final minute for a drained placeholder Joe. September is “the final minute,” given the 50 units of legal guidelines governing how a lot time is required so as to add a candidate to the poll and nonetheless make mailing deadlines for absentee votes. Her personal lack of expertise is tempered by Barack’s eight years, and, certainly, a quiet promoting level amongst Dems could be that that is certainly a 3rd time period for some type of Obama administration. With Obama’s reputation and bullet-proofing in opposition to accusations of racism, nobody will fear in any respect about sweeping Kamala Harris apart, maybe with the promise of a pleasant college job to point out no onerous emotions. Movie star endorsements would pour in headlined by Oprah and Taylor Swift and somebody close to resistant to Trump’s private insult fashion of campaigning would take the podium in opposition to him. It might be an in depth election.” • Once more, the very best model of this argument I’ve seen. I’m unsure Michelle Obama needs this. And no matter The Wizard of Kalorama™ thinks he was placed on this Earth to do, I might wager it’s not placing his spouse within the White Home. The Clintons, sure. FWIW, I don’t get these vibes from the Obamas.

Biden (D): “Democrats are too fearful of a contested conference” [Financial Times]. “The chances that this coming August we could have the primary Democratic contested conference since 1968 are non-trivial. Had been Joe Biden persuaded both to step down, or suffered some forcing medical occasion, the social gathering would haven’t any selection however to show historical past actually does rhyme by discovering a brand new standard-bearer in Chicago…. It’s straightforward to image the way it might go disastrously…. But I also can image one thing fairly completely different; a profitable contested conference that rivets the nation’s consideration and produces the stuff of Trump’s nightmares — a a lot youthful and extra vibrant rival. Whether or not that may be an unbound and rebooted Kamala Harris, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, or one of many male governors, is anyone’s guess. It’s value stressing although that know-how would guarantee the method wouldn’t be closed-door. It couldn’t be a sordid deal between social gathering bosses. Chicago 2024 could be a democratic train of a special variety.” • Completely, yeah, know-how. Bear in mind the Democrat Iowa caucus in 2020? Anyhow, Huge Gretch does have some native clout, and that spook-orchestrated kidnapping stunt means she’s obtained backers somethe place, however… “vibrant”? I dunno. Michiganders?

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MI: “Biden Will Win Michigan Simply. It Could Additionally Present His Weak point” [The New Republic]. “The Michigan major is Tuesday, and there gained’t be a lot drama so far as who the winners, on both aspect, will likely be—Joe Biden and Donald Trump are locks. However there’s something brewing on the Democratic aspect that might show to be consequential. It’s not who’s on the poll: Biden is, after all, sharing it together with Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips. Marianne Williamson will likely be on it as properly as a result of she certified for a poll line earlier than she dropped out of the race. The field to control is the fourth: ‘uncommitted.’ That is the house that political insiders will likely be watching, and it’ll decide the narrative flowing out of Michigan. Proper now, there’s numerous normal concern amongst Democrats about Biden’s age, and within the Nice Lake State particularly, there’s appreciable concern about Biden’s pro-Israel tilt in his dealing with of the Israel-Gaza struggle, and a motion afoot to disclaim him assist over it. If all roads result in an unusually massive ‘uncommitted’ vote, what Democratic insiders are nonetheless now solely whispering—that perhaps Biden shouldn’t be the nominee—will solely develop extra audible. The end result might sign not solely that some voters are mad about Gaza, however that others merely don’t need Biden due to his age.”

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Bear in mind the pandemic? Good instances:

Close to and expensive to my coronary heart and work: The three rounds of stimulus checks for a household of 4 totaled $11,400—nearly 1/5 of the median household earnings or 1/4 of the Black median household earnings. Wow!

That is large reduction in an enormous disaster. Going massive, quick, and broad was vital.

— Claudia Sahm (@Claudia_Sahm) February 27, 2024

I feel the favored notion is the actual one: Trump provides, and Biden taketh away. The CARES Act “put cash in your pocket.” The American Rescue Plan, for all its laudable goals, didn’t. There’s Bidenomics, proper there. Plus, Joe Biden owes me 600 bucks.

#COVID19

“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

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Elite Maleficence

TABLE 1: Each day Covid Charts

LEGEND

1) ★ for charts new in the present day; all others will not be up to date.

2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”

NOTES

[1] (Biobot) Once more, no backward revisions. The uptick is actual (at the least to Biobot). Be aware this anomaly:

Seems to be like Covid may not be seasonal? Who knew? Hoerger feedback:

[2] (Biobot) Right here, FWIW, is Verily regional information as of February 20. CDC Area 1:

And Area 2:

Verily information, then, exhibits no anomaly. Presumably, Biobot sewersheds and Verily sewersheds don’t overlap.

[3] (CDC Variants) “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance information will likely be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems to be like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

[4] (ER) Doesn’t assist Biobot information. “Charts and information supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.”

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Not flattening.

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and information supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.

[7] (Walgreens) That’s a giant drop! It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and obtained examined anyhow.

[8] (Cleveland) Flattening, in line with Biobot information.

[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Down, albeit within the rear view mirror.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants) About time for one thing to problem JN.1. However what’s “different”? One thing to stay up for, I assume!

Stats Watch

Manufacturing: “United States Sturdy Items Orders” [Trading Economics]. “New orders for manufactured sturdy items in america slumped by 6.1% month-over-month in January 2024, greater than market expectations of a 4.5% fall and following a 0.3% lower in December. ”

Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The composite manufacturing index within the US Fifth District space elevated to -5 in February 2024 from -15 in January.”

Manufacturing: “Boeing Lacking Key Components of Security Tradition: FAA Report” [Aviation International News]. “The panel additional reported that it couldn’t discover a “constant and clear” security reporting channel or course of inside the enterprise unit. It additionally famous that staff don’t perceive how one can use the completely different reporting programs and which reporting system to make use of and when. The panel expressed concern that the confusion may discourage staff from reporting what they see as security issues. The report concluded that, though Boeing beforehand supplied a roadmap to implement an Group Designation Authorization (ODA) and security administration programs (SMS), the airframer nonetheless hadn’t accomplished the adjustments described within the roadmap.” • For extra on ODA programs, see Leeham Information linked to right here. Key level from Leeham:

The FAA doesn’t have the sources to do all of the certification actions essential to sustain with an increasing aviation trade.

The FAA will get assist utilizing [Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) Unit Members (UMs)] who report back to the FAA] for routine duties permitting the FAA to focus its restricted sources on security vital certification points in addition to new and novel applied sciences. Designees come from non-public trade. They’re specialists within the aviation and medical communities who’re accustomed to the rules and certification necessities essential to problem a certificates. Particular person Designees can both be an organization worker or a person marketing consultant.

Examples of such specialists could be mechanics, docs, engineers, inspectors, and pilots. All designees should cross a rigorous screening course of to be permitted to behave within the FAAs capability in a restricted scope. The FAA delegates to permitted people and corporations each job they do. Consider it as a pressure multiplier in that non-public trade is doing a really vital quantity of the FAA’s work.

Now see the FAA Report–

Manufacturing: “Part 103 Group Designation Authorizations (ODA) For Transport Airplanes Professional Panel Evaluate Board” (PDF) [Federal Aviation Administration]. Stupidly:

Therefore, the display dump from web page 36:

Shorter: Boeing staff muscled the UMs (ODA Unit Members) to make manufacturing quotas, wrecking security. Hat tip, all these pencil-necked MBAs in Chicago! This habits goes to be onerous to weed out, and I very a lot doubt that the [genuflects] Obama-administration lawyer they simply put in control of HR to bust the unions will likely be as much as the duty. Attention-grabbing instances for our nationwide champion!

Transportation: “Norfolk Southern is bolstering its board because it seeks to fend off a shareholder-activist group waging a proxy battle in opposition to the freight railroad” [Paul Page, Wall Street Journal]. “The corporate is trying so as to add former Amtrak and airline government Richard Anderson and former U.S. senator Mary Kathryn “Heidi” Heitkamp to its board of administrators as investor group Ancora Holdings presses its personal effort to overtake Norfolk Southern’s management by its roughly $1 billion stake within the service…. Ancora’s slate of recent administrators contains former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and that it needs to put in former United Parcel Service government Jim Barber and former CSX official Jamie Boychuk within the prime two administration posts. Norfolk Southern warns in its proxy supplies that . That’s a doubtlessly precarious path for the railroad, which faces intense regulatory scrutiny over a poisonous practice derailment early final 12 months.” • Moar PSR?

As we speak’s Concern & Greed Index: 76 Excessive Greed (earlier shut: 75 Excessive Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 66 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Feb 27 at 1:02:13 PM ET.

Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. File Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 187. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is good.) NOTE on #42 Plagues: “The coronavirus pandemic has maxed out this class.” Extra trustworthy than most! • Apparently not involved in regards to the goat sacrificers in any respect?

Information of the Wired

“Botanical gardens can cool metropolis air by a median of 5 °C” [The New Atlas]. A meta-study. Useful chart:

Contact data for vegetation: Readers, be at liberty to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a test in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me photos of vegetation. Greens are wonderful! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! If you would like your deal with to look as a credit score, please place it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize by utilizing your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Late Introvert:

Readers, I ought to acknowledge this. However I don’t! What’s it? (Seems to be like a superbly lush and dense backyard, from the background. NOTE Not a criticism however a useful trace for extra pleasurable picture-taking: The topic doesn’t need to be within the middle, even when your digicam tries to get you to try this. See the Rule of Thirds for a extra dynamic composition. Like all guidelines, meant to be damaged. However I discovered that every one my photographs improved as quickly as I began trying on the entire body.)

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