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Saturday, June 10, 2023
Links 6/10/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 190 Comments »
Michael Hudson on the US Economy – Surprisingly Resilient or Potemkin Village?
Michael Hudson covers the waterfront on the US economy, such as class warfare, santions dependency, China, and the dollar.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:51 am | 25 Comments »
I Was a Wilderness Therapy Success Story. Then My PTSD Surfaced.
Wilderness therapy looks like yet another scam designed to extract funds from parents with self-destructive kids.
Topics: Guest Post, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:39 am | 23 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/9/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 78 Comments »
Human-Caused Warming to Surpass Paris Agreement Limit by 2037, Analysis Finds
Another troubling global warming assessment.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 6/9/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 96 Comments »
Europe’s Strawberry War Heats Up As Germany Sends Cross-Party Delegation to Spain
Strawberry fields forever? Maybe not in water-starved south-eastern Spain.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 14 Comments »
Thomas Ferguson: Debt Ceiling Theater and the Trump Parallel Universe
Political scientist Thomas Ferguson discusses Democratic debt ceiling fecklessness, Biden’s wobbly coaliiton, and US instability.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:25 am | 21 Comments »
Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Edward Snowden describes how surveillace tools have become more powerful in the past decade
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:23 am | 25 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/8/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 76 Comments »
Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding
More pillaging of America, here in hospitals in flyover, where it won’t be noticed much before those practices start moving to the core.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 8 Comments »
Links 6/8/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 112 Comments »
Is Russia’s Least Bad Option Now the Maximalist Stance of Taking Control of Western Ukraine?
Is Russia moving towards the perceived necessity of subduing western Ukraine? And how might that work?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Infrastructure, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 143 Comments »
Booming Solar Industry Has An Unresolved Waste Problem
Solar panels have a roughly 15 year life. Where do they go to die? The answers now are not very good.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:41 am | 27 Comments »
Biden Signs Off on Restarting Student Debt. Why?
Do student debt concessions prove Democrats are just terrible negotiators? The real reason Party leaders do the debt ceiling dance.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Student loans, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:37 am | 31 Comments »