Monthly Archives: April 2024

April 30, 2024

• H5N1 Happily Mutates Away, while Public Health Establishment Plods Along, Treating the Virus as a Food Supply Issue, and Not as a Potential Pandemic
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• “The Four Key Reasons Why The U.S. Will Never Stop Targeting Russia’s LNG Sector”
  by Yves Smith 10:00 am

• Links 4/30/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Could Lithium-Rich Bolivia Be Next On BRICS’ Membership List? Russia Seems to Think So
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• String of Conveniently Timed Spying Cases in Germany Influence EU Elections, Undermine Chancellor’s China Efforts, and Spread Fear of Russian Fifth Column
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 am

April 29, 2024

• College Gaza Encampments: Scale, Tactics, Reaction, Prospects
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/29/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Consumer Boycotts Can Inflict More Pain on Israel-Backing Companies than Divestiture
  by Yves Smith 4:52 am

• Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
  by Conor Gallagher 3:00 am

April 28, 2024

• Links 4/28/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Wars Come Home
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 27, 2024

• Links 4/27/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Book Review: The Enduring Allure of Alien Worlds
  by Yves Smith 6:17 am

• How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

April 26, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Are You Ready to Dive Deep into China’s Intellectual Odyssey?
  by Yves Smith 11:16 am

• Links 4/26/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Mexican Economy Faces Its “With U.S. Or Against U.S.” Moment
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Free Speech on the Ropes: Legislation to Revoke Not-for-Profit Status of Organizations that Support Palestine Protests Passes in House
  by Yves Smith 4:47 am

• Book Review: “On the Move” Is a Must-Read Account of U.S. Climate Migration
  by Yves Smith 2:55 am

April 25, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/25/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Google AI Censorship: Google Reverses Itself Fully on Demonetization Threat After Intervention by Matt Taibbi and Our Demonstration of Pervasive Errors
  by Yves Smith 10:20 am

• Links 4/25/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The Populist Dynamic: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Countering Populism
  by Yves Smith 3:41 am

• Grocery Store Consolidation: Manipulating Supply Chains and Manufacturing, for Corporate Influence and Profit . . . Redux
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

• ‘Does the CIA Still Do That?’
  by Yves Smith 1:28 am

April 24, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/24/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/24/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Israel Economy Deterioration Worsens as Gaza Conflict and Other Hostilities Grind On
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• War Is Never the Answer to a Properly Posed Question
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• FTC Chief Says Tech Advancements Risk Health Care Price Fixing
  by Yves Smith 5:48 am

April 23, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Crackdowns on Pro-Palestine Occupations on Major Campuses Bringing Gaza Conflict a Bit Closer to Home
  by Yves Smith 11:16 am

• Links 4/23/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Another Small Emerging Economy Just Dealt Another Big Blow to the Global ISDS System
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• James Galbraith: Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
  by Yves Smith 4:29 am

• Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
  by Yves Smith 3:32 am

April 22, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/22/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/22/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How ‘Dune’ Became a Rallying Cry For the New Science of Ecology
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• US Strategy for Great Power Competition: More Graft and Hope for Wonder Weapons
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• China Anti-Espionage Laws Threaten Pharma Supply Chains and Multinational Manufacture in China
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• Challenging the Duopoly: Jill Stein on Why She’s Running for US President as Green Party Candidate
  by Yves Smith 12:56 am

April 21, 2024

• WHO’s New Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through The Air” (with a Note on the Pandemic Treaty)
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• Links 4/21/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Low-Frequency Noise Is Pervasive. Does That Matter?
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

April 20, 2024

• Links 4/20/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• AI Chatbots Refuse to Produce ‘Controversial’ Output − Why That’s a Free Speech Problem
  by Yves Smith 4:06 am

• Boeing and Baltimore Bridge Scandals: Monopolization and Criminal Negligence?
  by Yves Smith 3:42 am

April 19, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/19/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• US Firms Have Little Financial Incentive to Comply with the Minimum Wage
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/19/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Fog of Escalation: Israel Strike on Iran Sort-of Open Thread
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Argentina Applies to Become a NATO “Global Partner” As Long-Time US Client State, Colombia, Eyes BRICS Membership
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Medicare’s Push To Improve Chronic Care Attracts Businesses, but Not Many Doctors
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

April 18, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/18/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Citizenship: Concept and Consequences
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/18/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Standard Chartered Says Peak Oil Demand Is Not Imminent
  by Yves Smith 6:31 am

• Mortgage Rates over 7% and Heading Higher, Housing Market Still Frozen, Lots of Buyers on Strike as Prices Still Too High
  by Yves Smith 4:44 am

• Hoisted from Comments: The Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Origins of Modern Israel
  by Yves Smith 3:00 am

April 17, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/17/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Middle East Escalation: Financial Times’ Revealing Account of Israel Risk of Ukraine-Style Air Defense Attrition; Helmer on Possible Electrical Grid Campaign
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/17/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Can a New German Party Steer the European Left in a More Effective Direction? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
  by Yves Smith 2:19 am

• Scientists Warn Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025
  by Yves Smith 12:51 am

April 16, 2024

• Alvin Bragg’s Odd “Hush Money” (Except Not) 34-Felony Case Against Trump Begins
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/16/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/16/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Lenin Revised — Russian Military Power Means De-Electrification And Unconditional Surrender Of The Kiev Regime
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Javier Milei Seems Intent on Embroiling Argentina in War, Whether in Ukraine or the Middle East (Or Both)
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Zombie Tests: Is the SAT Back From the Dead?
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

April 15, 2024

• More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market)
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/15/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/15/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• How Ultranationalist Zionists Seek the Destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque to Produce the End Times
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• Starbucks Seeks Supreme Court Protection From Being Ordered to Rehire Baristas Who Say They Were Fired for Union-Promoting Activities
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Michael Hudson: The Truth about the Destruction of the Palestinians
  by Yves Smith 12:19 am

April 14, 2024

• Links 4/14/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 13, 2024

• Criminalizing the Unhoused Is Inherently Cruel
  by Yves Smith 11:41 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: My Berlin Speech on Palestine That German Police Entered the Venue to Ban
  by Yves Smith 9:04 am

• Links 4/13/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

April 12, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Young People Finally Starting to Recognize the Super Rich and Not Oldsters Are the Problem
  by Yves Smith 10:40 am

• Links 4/12/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Greece Just Gave a Glimpse of How the EU’s “Voluntary” Digital ID Wallet Will Gradually Become Mandatory
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• 5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It
  by Yves Smith 2:27 am

• A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
  by Yves Smith 1:36 am

April 11, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/11/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Russia Delivers Major Blow to Ukraine by Destroying Kiev’s Biggest Power Plant
  by Yves Smith 10:20 am

• Links 4/11/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation, March: Inflation Behaves Very Badly, Saga Far from Over
  by Yves Smith 5:23 am

• US Cities Struggling With Office Vacancies: St. Louis in Doom Loop, New York Eyeing Residential Conversions
  by Yves Smith 2:22 am

• Nate Silver: Sotomayor Should Retire Before the Election
  by Yves Smith 12:59 am

April 10, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/10/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Do We Really Need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?
  by Yves Smith 11:32 am

• Links 4/10/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• On the Difficulty of Research in the Biomedical Sciences and Scientific Medicine
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• How Biden Can Win on the Economy: Stop Mass Layoffs
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• U.S.’s New Hopes in Iraq Are Dashed as It Signs Longest Ever Gas Deal With Iran
  by Yves Smith 6:31 am

April 9, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/9/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yellen and Biden Administration Incompetence: Bullying and Entitlement, Rather Than Making a Case, Here Regarding China Overproduction
  by Yves Smith 10:51 am

• Links 4/9/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Diplomatic Blowback Begins in Latin America, As Ecuador Violates One of the Oldest Rules of International Law
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Tilting at Windmills: Bernanke and Blanchard’s Obsession with the Wage-Price Spiral
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Real Energy Transition Costs Could Spell Danger for EU
  by Yves Smith 5:58 am

April 8, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/8/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 4/8/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Interview: Puncturing Misconceptions About Vaccine Hesitancy
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• No Exit: Western Imperialism, Capitalism, and Industrialization
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• The Economy Finally Doomed Erdogan in Major Defeat in Turkish Local Elections. What Comes Next?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• BRICS Enlargement – a “Non-Event” or a Stage Victory Against the West?
  by Yves Smith 2:46 am

• The Medicare Maze
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

April 7, 2024

• Will Human-to-Human Bird Flu (H5N1) Be the Long-Awaited “Disease X?”
  by Lambert Strether 3:55 pm

• Links 4/7/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees’ OK
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

April 6, 2024

• Links 4/6/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• The Duran: US Economic Decline and Rise of Greater Eurasia – Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Europe’s New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
  by Yves Smith 6:38 am

April 5, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/5/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs): Ponzi Finance on Steroids
  by Yves Smith 11:48 am

• Links 4/5/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• Is Justice Finally Catching Up to Ursula von der Leyen?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Ukraine Plan of Crocus City Hall Attack to Start Ethnic Pogroms, Civil War in Russia
  by Yves Smith 6:01 am

• Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks − Countries Facing Extreme Heat May Try It Anyway, and the World Needs to be Prepared
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

April 4, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/4/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• “On a Relative Scale, There’s a Strong Case that Financialization Is Worse in the PRC than the US”
  by Yves Smith 10:36 am

• Links 4/4/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The Energy Transition: Technology Versus Political Backlash
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values
  by Yves Smith 2:14 am

• Paris Wants to Show Strength, but Faces Geopolitical Crisis in Africa
  by Yves Smith 12:35 am

April 3, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/3/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yellen Trip to China: Biden Administration Presumption and Cluelessness on Display
  by Yves Smith 10:34 am

• Links 4/3/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• China Prepares in Central Asia to Withstand Any Western Isolation Efforts
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Electric War Goes West – Depopulation Turns Into Displacement Turns Into Civil War in Galicia
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack Up Its War and Go Home
  by Yves Smith 12:53 am

April 2, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/2/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Brussels Begins to Mobilise Its Mass Censorship Regime for Upcoming EU Elections
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• How the Electric War Is Redrawing the Ukraine Map – In Black
  by Yves Smith 6:20 am

• A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
  by Yves Smith 2:35 am

April 1, 2024

• “Ensh*ttification”: A General Theory for the Life Cycle of the Firm?
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/1/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Michael Hudson: Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am