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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Links 7/13/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | No Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Cloak And Dagger (1946) Run Time 1H 46M
Cloak and Dagger is a noir spy thriller about a physicist turned secret agent in WW2.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | No Comments »
Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Hedge funds, Market inefficiencies, Private equity, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | No Comments »
Links 7/12/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 132 Comments »
Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late
Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Legal, Middle East, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:10 am | 41 Comments »
Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Francis Ford Coppola’s Operas & Chamber Pieces
A break from our regular programming in the form of revisiting some of Francis Ford Coppola’s classics.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:41 am | 6 Comments »
Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient
Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went. As the subhead notes: Summa Health’s experience highlights the challenges of AI adoption, especially at community health systems: Across emergency departments around Akron, Ohio, physicians were getting overwhelmed. In […]
Topics: Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 25 Comments »
Billionaires Flail About Trying to Beat Mamdani; Wall Street Journal Describes Shambolic Plan to Spend $20 Million
What fun! Billionaires running around all hair on fire over their inabilty to do much to check Mamdani.
Topics: Banana republic, Income disparity, Middle East, Politics, Real estate, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:54 pm | 23 Comments »
Links 7/11/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 154 Comments »
Trump (Probably) Just Did Lula a Massive Favour With His 50% Tariff Threat Against Brazil
This has little to do with trade — in fact, the US had a $6.8 billion annual trade surplus with Brazil last year — and everything to do with geopolitics.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 20 Comments »
That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too
How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Topics: China, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:34 am | 26 Comments »
Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices
More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Permaculture, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:59 am | 10 Comments »
BRICS 2025: Propaganda and the Illusion of Change
How the propaganda machine behind the BRICS 2025 summit works—told from the inside, it reveals that nothing truly new is happening
Topics: Coffee Break, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 40 Comments »
Del Monte Foods Goes Into Bankruptcy: A Trump Tariff Casualty
Struggling Del Monte Foods keeled over due to its exposure to steel and aluminum cost increases from ‘Trump’s tariffs.
Topics: Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Legal, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 42 Comments »
Links 7/10/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 219 Comments »