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Sunday, January 29, 2023
“Look for the Helpers”: Corsi-Rosenthal Box Round-Up
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:25 pm | 2 Comments »
Links 1/29/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 133 Comments »
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Discuss the Causes and Politicization of Inflation
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Privatization, Real estate, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:00 am | 25 Comments »
California’s Plan to Disappear the Homeless
CARE courts to force treatment on those deemed mentally ill and could result in state conservatorship.
Topics: Legal, Market inefficiencies, Moral hazard, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 2:00 am | 70 Comments »
Rural Americans Aren’t Included in Inflation Figures – and for Them, the Cost of Living May Be Rising Faster
The fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys only urban populations for the consumer price index could be masking a rural-urban inflation gap.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Federal Reserve
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 1:00 am | 23 Comments »
Contesting The Ultimate Lockdown: Non-Vax Covid Prophylactic Home Remedies (Plus Bharat’s Nasal Vaccine)
Let’s save some lives!
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:25 pm | 62 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/27/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 61 Comments »
Links 1/27/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 184 Comments »
USAID Quietly Unveils Plans to Export Ukraine’s Digital Governance Model Around World
Ukraine’s wholesale digitization of government services predates the war, but in the eternal spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste and with the financial support of USAID and the EU, it has been significantly expanded since.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 64 Comments »
New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection
New assessment by Pesticides Action Network North America examines the “vicious cycle” linking these fossil fuel–derived chemicals and climate change.
Topics: Environment, Global warming
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 am | 8 Comments »
The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:00 am | 16 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/26/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 91 Comments »
Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power?
Nuclear energy is greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels. But people seldom make decisions based on facts.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 146 Comments »
Healthcare Systems Increasingly Turn to Gig Nurses to Remedy Their Self-Created Nurse “Shortages”
Private equity uses the pandemic to pursue the “Uberfication” of nursing.
Topics: Health care, Private equity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 9:55 am | 30 Comments »