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Monday, April 21, 2025
Coffee Break: Across the Pond Where Stupidity Replaces Sound Policy
Topics: Banana republic, Coffee Break, Guest Post
Posted by Kevin Kirk at 2:00 pm | 10 Comments »
Links 4/21/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 154 Comments »
How Trump Deportations Fit Into War Against American Workers
Rather than cracking down on employers exploiting immigrant labor, we’re getting an assault on unions and rendition of immigrant activist students. And an increase in H1 and H2s to further drive down wages and worker protections is likely coming.
Topics: Market inefficiencies, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 9 Comments »
Reform Backers Are Importing the US’s ‘Big Money’ Playbook to UK Politics
Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk.
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 9 Comments »
Before Banks: Historical Lessons for Rethinking Credit
The era before modern banking took off featured flexible, highly personal credit arrangements, in some ways better than what we have now.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:21 am | 13 Comments »
Links 4/20/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 188 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: M (1931) Run Time 1h29m
The Sunday Morning Movie presents M (1931) A classic b&w crime drama set in 1930’s Germany, it was director Fritz Lang’s magnum opus.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 19 Comments »
Scientists Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet – An Astronomer Explains Why Many Are Still Skeptical
Many uncertainties remain about K2-18b.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 25 Comments »
Links 4/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 164 Comments »
Trump and Rubio Signal US on Verge of Halting Ukraine Peace Negotiations
As we had predicted from early on, the Ukraine peact talks are failing. Trump is threatening to pull the plug.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:52 am | 85 Comments »
Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier?
Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.
Topics: Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:25 am | 13 Comments »
“Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”
Trump asked the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to determine whether to use the Insurrection Act to secure the southern border
Topics: Banana republic, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 145 Comments »
Links 4/18/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 115 Comments »
Your Face, Your Passport: The Hi-Tech, Dystopian Future of International Travel
“E-gates… open the possibility of harvesting the travel data and biometrics of the population across our lifetimes.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
Trump Makes Presumed Empty but Loud Threat to Fire Fed Chair Powell, Showing that Trump Will Continue to Wreck Markets and the Economy to Prove His Manhood
Trump is now taking on Fed chair Powell over Powell’s refusal to cut rates to bail Trump out of the economic messes he created.
Topics: Federal Reserve, Investment outlook, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 32 Comments »