Monthly Archives: October 2022

October 31, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/31/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Russia Accuses West of Trying to Replicate Ukraine Strategy in Armenia 
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Links 10/31/2022
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Electro-Shock Therapy for Slow Learners in the Ukraine Electric War (Part III)
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• ‘A Brazil of Hope’ as Leftist Lula Defeats Far-Right Bolsonaro in Presidential Runoff
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Is The IEA Too Optimistic About The Energy Transition?
  by Conor Gallagher 4:50 am

October 30, 2022

• The Ongoing Criminalization of Homelessness
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Links 10/30/2022
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Haitians, Peace Activists Denounce Plan for Another US-Backed Intervention
  by Conor Gallagher 6:50 am

October 29, 2022

• Links 10/29/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Stab in the Back – Not One Inch but Right to the Heart
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Advertise on a Competitor’s Social Media Platform? Um, that Would Be a Hoot… GM “Paused” Ads on Musk’s Twitter
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

October 28, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/28/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Grain Giants Have Made a Bonanza from Hunger. Time to Take Them Apart
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/28/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Credit Suisse is One of 13 Too-Big-to-Fail Banks in Europe, But It Looks Like It Could Be Failing
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• A Disordered World – Part 3: Pathways
  by Yves Smith 5:57 am

• The Growing Chorus for Peace in Ukraine
  by Yves Smith 5:07 am

October 27, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/27/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Emerging Economy Victims of Climate Change
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/27/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 2: Susceptibilities
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Slouching Towards Reverse Colonialism
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• The Oil Industry’s Message to You
  by Yves Smith 1:22 am

October 26, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/26/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/26/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class – An Essay-Review in Memory of Barbara Ehrenreich, 1941-2022
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Energy Loss Is Single Biggest Component of Today’s Electricity System
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

October 25, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/25/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/25/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Colombian President Says the Unspeakable Out Loud: “The US is Ruining Economies Around the World”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Wall Street Journal on “U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle” Focuses on Personalities Over End of Unipolar Era
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• “The US Signals Readiness to Launch Nuclear Strike Against Russia”
  by Yves Smith 5:40 am

October 24, 2022

• CDC, In Yet Another Data Debacle, Fails to Protect You by Butchering Reveal of Covid “Escape” Variant BQ.1*
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/24/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 10/24/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Western Narrative Escalation Over Ukraine War: A Warning of Coming Strong Countermeasures? Or a Sign of Desperate Impotence?
  by Yves Smith 6:29 am

• Texas Revamps ‘Active-Shooter’ Drills at K-12 Schools to Minimize Trauma
  by Lambert Strether 5:55 am

• Scientist GM Is Not Impressed by Latest Preprint on Covid Lab Leak Hypothesis
  by Yves Smith 3:22 am

• What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
  by Yves Smith 12:13 am

October 23, 2022

• “Let Me See Your Smile” as Ugly Power Trip and Classification Struggle
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 10/23/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• ‘Good Vibes Only’: Why Toxic Positivity Is Slowly Killing Us
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 am

October 22, 2022

• Links 10/22/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…
  by Yves Smith 6:39 am

• It No Longer Makes Sense for the Bank of England to be Independent
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

October 21, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/21/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Türkiye Resisting US Pressure Against Increasing Economic Ties to Russia
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/21/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Italian Utility Giant Enel Needs a €16 Billion Lifeline, As Its Derivatives Hedges Backfire
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• In Just 44 Days, Liz Truss Has Made the UK Immeasurably Worse
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• U.S. Companies Now Charge Ex-Employees for Their Training
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

October 20, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/20/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Campaigners to Biden: ‘Tell Congress to Pass a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax’
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/20/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Ukraine War: Russia Preparing for More Terrorism?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Wheels Come Off for Tories. Update: Truss Resigns
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• How Corporations “Get Away With Murder” to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity
  by Yves Smith 4:49 am

October 19, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/19/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Brussels Provides Not-So-Subtle Input on Italy’s Next Government
  by Conor Gallagher 9:35 am

• Links 10/19/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• What Next in the Electric War for Ukraine – How Marshal Kutuzov’s Golden Bridge for Napoleon’s Retreat Is Working Today
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Diesel Crisis Deepens As Inventories Fall To Dangerous Levels
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

• The Sveriges Riksbank Counterfeit Nobel Award Goes to Bernanke et al. for the Wrong Model
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

October 18, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/18/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Vietnam Army General Giap on How To Win, British Armchair General Freedman on How To Lose
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/18/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• EU Commission Is Pushing EU Countries to Accept Joint Gas Purchases, Just As It Did With COVID-19 Vaccines
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• NOPEC Bill Would Mean the End Of Aramco and OPEC as We Know Them
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• Progressives Say New Midterm Poll Must Be ‘Wake Up Call’ to Democrats
  by Yves Smith 6:09 am

October 17, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/17/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• EU Plays Hardball With Serbia Over Its Russia Ties
  by Conor Gallagher 10:45 am

• Links 10/17/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• How European Union Energy Policies Could Mitigate the Coming Recession
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Is the UK About to Hit the Wall?
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

• Why the Soviet Union Imploded
  by Yves Smith 4:09 am

October 16, 2022

• Is the US Preparing for the “NATOization” of Bosnia?
  by Conor Gallagher 9:35 am

• Links 10/16/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism: Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

October 15, 2022

• Links 10/15/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Book Excerpt: It’s Not Just Humans at Risk From Covid-19
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

• What Social Security Should Really Be Paying to Survive in This Economy
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

October 14, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/14/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Human Prehistory—Why New Discoveries About Human Origins Open Up Revolutionary Possibilities
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/14/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• A Central Banker in Finland Just Told Finns to Stock Up on Cash, Just in Case of Disruption to Payments System
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Biden Administration Doubles Down on Sanctions Self-Harm: China Chip Export Ban, Possible Russia Aluminum Sanctions, All Systems Still Go with Russian Oil Price Cap
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• The Odessa Connection? The Ukrainian M.O. for the Crimean Bridge Attack – This Is How The Operation Worked To The Point Of Detonation
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

October 13, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Bank of England Is Bailing Out Pension Funds, Again
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• COVID-19 Rapid Tests Can Breed Confusion – Here’s How To Make Sense of the Results and What To Do, According to 3 Testing Experts
  by Yves Smith 11:21 am

• BMI: The Mismeasure of Weight and the Mistreatment of Obesity
  by Yves Smith 10:43 am

• Is Breaking Things the Best Way Forward for Climate Activists?
  by Yves Smith 10:02 am

• Links 10/13/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

October 12, 2022

• We Join Mark Sleboda on the Latest Gonzalo Lira Roundtable at 2:00 AM EDT
  by Yves Smith 11:44 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Checkout Charity’ Can Increase a Shopper’s Anxiety, Especially When Asks Are Automated
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/12/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science, Part 2: The Diet-Heart Hypothesis and Cholesterol
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Bank of England Bought Only Small Amounts of Bonds Even Today, Warns Pension Funds They Have “Only Three Days Left” to Unwind Derivatives with BOE Support
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Whose Cat Caught the German Tongue? No Blame for Russia After German Train Sabotage on Sunday Morning, No Blame for Nord Stream Sabotage, Yet
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

October 11, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Central Bank Myths Drag Down World Economy
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/11/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Protests Rage Across Europe, As Sanctions-Fuelled Inflation Surges and Economic Crisis Deepens
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

• Experts: U.S. LNG Growth Could Slow Next Year
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

October 10, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/10/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• An Official Smoking Gun on #CovidIsAirborne Denial by Hospitals Because They Didn’t Want to Spend Money Changing Their Physical Plant
  by Lambert Strether 11:25 am

• Links 10/10/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Bucking Convention to Track the Upside of Invasive Species
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 am

• Russian Army Turning Out the Lights: US Losing Electricity War in Ukraine
  by Yves Smith 1:08 am

October 9, 2022

• Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters: An Assault on the Adminstrative State?
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 pm

• Links 10/9/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• What You Don’t Have and Why
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 am

October 8, 2022

• Links 10/8/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• A Pennsylvania Prison Gets a Scandinavian-Style Makeover – and Shows How the US Penal System Could Become More Humane
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Big Agriculture Casts Itself as Climate Champion Ahead of COP27
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

October 7, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/7/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘Great Resignation’? ‘Quiet Quitting’? If You’re Surprised by America’s Anti-Work Movement, Maybe You Need to Watch More Movies
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/7/2022
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• IMF Just Flagged Another Multi-Trillion Dollar Threat to the Global Financial System: Open-End Funds
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• The U.S. Is Preparing Its Response to the “Short-Sighted” Strategy of OPEC+
  by Yves Smith 6:27 am

• Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

October 6, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/6/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• A Wee Rant About the State of Travel
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 10/6/2022
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Brexit Britain Is All Alone in a Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?
  by Yves Smith 6:22 am

October 5, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/5/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Washington, Brussels Set Sights on TurkStream Pipeline Amid Crackdown on Ankara-Moscow Cooperation 
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Links 10/5/22
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Satyajit Das: The Financial Party Is Coming to an Abrupt End
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Supreme Court Grapples with Animal Welfare in a Challenge to a California Law Requiring Pork to Be Humanely Raised
  by Conor Gallagher 6:50 am

• How Cloud Services Allow Tech Titans to Act as Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

October 4, 2022

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/4/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 10/4/22
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Pressure Rises on Von Der Leyen, As Pfizer CEO Backs Out of Testifying to EU Parliament Covid Panel
  by Nick Corbishley 6:54 am

• Hurricane Ian Capped Two Weeks of Extreme Storms: How Climate Change Fuels Tropical Cyclones
  by Lambert Strether 6:53 am

• A Tale of Tier 3 Cities in China
  by Lambert Strether 6:30 am

• Nobody Cares About The Labour Files
  by John McGregor 5:55 am

• Oil Traders Are Cashing In on Volatile Markets
  by John McGregor 5:50 am

October 3, 2022

• The Covid-19 Guidance on CDC’s Website is a Crime Against Humanity
  by Lambert Strether 3:05 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/3/2022
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Aerodynamics of Velvet: What Humans Can Learn from Owls
  by Lambert Strether 9:25 am

• Links 10/3/22
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• The Inevitable Financial Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In
  by John McGregor 6:50 am

October 2, 2022

• Addiction Instead of Taxation
  by John McGregor 8:55 am

• Links 10/2/22
  by John McGregor 6:55 am

• Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
  by John McGregor 6:50 am

October 1, 2022

• Links 10/1/22
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Tech Billionaires Are Actually Dumber Than You Think
  by Lambert Strether 6:53 am

• Financing Ukraine’s Victory: Why and How
  by Lambert Strether 6:51 am