Monthly Archives: April 2025

April 30, 2025

• Satyajit Das: The Unravelling – Part 1: Economic & Financial Furies
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/30/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Book Review: ‘Autocracy, Inc.’ by Anne Applebaum
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• China Leapfrogging the U.S. in Tech Innovation
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Michael Hudson and Yanis Varoufakis with Ann Pettifor on Economic and Political Paradigm Changes
  by Yves Smith 1:46 am

April 29, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – India/Pakistan Tinderbox
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Suddenly Everything Stopped: Nationwide Blackouts in Spain and Portugal Underscore Extreme Fragility of Our Modern Systems
  by Nick Corbishley 9:00 am

• Links 4/29/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Chokepoint Crazy: The U.S. Bombs Both Sides of Gulf of Aden and Considers Setting Up Shop in Somaliland
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

April 28, 2025

• Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Dying Western Empire
  by Kevin Kirk 2:00 pm

• Links 4/28/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Accident or Attack? Explosion at Iran’s Busiest Commercial Port Will Reverberate Beyond Bandar Abbas Either Way 
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

April 27, 2025

• Links 4/27/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) Run Time: 1h 55m
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• ‘We Deserve to Breathe Clean Air’: Southwest Memphians Take On Elon Musk’s xAI
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 26, 2025

• Links 4/26/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
  by Yves Smith 12:45 am

• Scholars Under Fire
  by Yves Smith 12:21 am

April 25, 2025

• Coffee Break: The Current State of Science During Trump v.2.0 Plus One Signal Advance
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the ‘Digital Preservation Infrastructure’
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/25/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• One of UK’s Largest (and Oldest) High Street Retailers Suffers Week of Chaos After “Cyber Incident”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• As Trump Administration Considers Retreat on Tariffs, Will It Resort to Usual US Fallback Option? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• How the American Economy Is Rigged to Serve the Rich, and Why Tariffs Won’t Change That
  by Yves Smith 1:14 am

April 24, 2025

• Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/24/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Climate Change: Where are We and Where are We Going, in Five Recent Books?
  by KLG 6:50 am

• China Sends Strong Message to “Global South” (and US) Via Its Embassy in Argentina
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Company Accused of Organizing National Rental Housing Cartel Goes on Offense as Trump DOJ Mothballs Price-Fixing Case 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• The Dangerous Illusion of Climate Resilience
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 23, 2025

• What Science Says About Food Additives
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/23/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• Prevagen®: A Most Curious Dietary Supplement for Your Brain
  by KLG 6:50 am

• ‘Making the West Great Again’
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 22, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – War with Iran
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Links 4/22/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• As Appetite for War and Repression Rise in the New Western (Dis-)Order, Palantir Is Making a Killing
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Will the EU Join the Economic War Against China?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Several Hundred Workers Who Keep Invasive Pests Out of the US Accept Trump’s Buyouts
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Satyajit Das: On Cinema –Surviving Childhood
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

April 21, 2025

• Coffee Break: Across the Pond Where Stupidity Replaces Sound Policy
  by Kevin Kirk 2:00 pm

• Links 4/21/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• How Trump Deportations Fit Into War Against American Workers
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Reform Backers Are Importing the US’s ‘Big Money’ Playbook to UK Politics
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Before Banks: Historical Lessons for Rethinking Credit
  by Yves Smith 12:21 am

April 20, 2025

• Links 4/20/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: M (1931) Run Time 1h29m
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Scientists Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet – An Astronomer Explains Why Many Are Still Skeptical
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 19, 2025

• Links 4/19/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Trump and Rubio Signal US on Verge of Halting Ukraine Peace Negotiations
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier?
  by Yves Smith 12:25 am

April 18, 2025

• “Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/18/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Your Face, Your Passport: The Hi-Tech, Dystopian Future of International Travel
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• 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
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Tariffs, the Dollar, and Equities: High-Frequency Evidence from the Liberation Day Announcement
  by Yves Smith 3:03 am

April 17, 2025

• Trump Back on Track to Failed Iran Negotiations and Likely War
  by Yves Smith 10:19 am

• Links 4/17/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• ‘Only Hellfire’: Israel Says Lifesaving Aid, Troop Withdrawal Off the Table for Gaza
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Trump’s Tariffs Just Torched His Own Energy Agenda
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• ‘You Don’t Need a Tariff, You Need a Revolution’
  by Yves Smith 3:01 am

April 16, 2025

• More on DOGE’s Fraud and Destruction
  by Yves Smith 10:34 am

• Links 4/16/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Tariffs and Trade Wars: Failing to Learn from the Great Depression
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Who Will Pay the Highest Price for Trump’s Postal Service Privatization Push?
  by Yves Smith 3:11 am

April 15, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Space War
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• 7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/15/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Quelle Surprise: Three Days After Milei Signs Another Unpayable IMF Bailout, US Treasury Secretary Pays Argentina a Call
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Here’s What’s in the New Rough Draft U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Keynesian Militarism or Wishful Thinking?
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

April 14, 2025

• Coffee Break – Across the Pond : Lights Out Edition
  by Kevin Kirk 2:00 pm

• Michael Hudson: Return of the Robber Barons – Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/14/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Pulling the Rug Out from Under China’s Clean Tech Strategy
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• For Climate and Livelihoods, Africa Bets Big on Solar Mini-Grids
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Book Review: How Plagues Are Intertwined With Social Justice
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 13, 2025

• Links 4/13/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Antidote Movie Presents: The Incident
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• AI-Generated Images Can Exploit How Your Mind Works − Here’s Why They Fool You and How to Spot Them
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 12, 2025

• Links 4/12/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Trade in the Time of Trump
  by Yves Smith 6:29 am

• For Health Apps, Questions Over Privacy and Efficacy
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

April 11, 2025

• US-Iran Negotiations: Why an Agreement Looks Unlikely
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/11/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Is the Trump Administration Mad Enough to Launch Drone Attacks Against Mexico?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• More Trump Punishment of the Poors: HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for 80 Million People
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• International Trade Suppression and the Demand for US Treasuries
  by Yves Smith 2:26 am

April 10, 2025

• Trump Tariff Climbdown: Consumer Impact Worse Due to China Retaliation; Who Wins Aside from Trump’s Ego
  by Yves Smith 12:02 pm

• Links 4/10/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Top Trade Expert Says Trump Tariff Pause Lays Bare ‘Just One More Con on Working People’
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Food Banks Tighten Their Belts as Federal Cuts Keep Coming. Patrons Don’t Know Where Else to Turn.
  by Yves Smith 3:32 am

• Data Center Boom Sparks Utility Spending—But How Real Is the Demand?
  by Yves Smith 2:34 am

April 9, 2025

• Trump’s Additional 50% Tariff Against China and China’s Tit for Tat Retaliation: Trump Own-Goals Himself Into Where China Would Want Him
  by Yves Smith 10:35 am

• Links 4/9/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Christopher Lasch and the Distemper of Our Time: A Chronicle Foretold
  by KLG 6:50 am

• Longer-Dated Treasuries Sell Off Sharply, Increasing Interest Rates: The Exact Opposite of What Trump Says He Wants
  by Yves Smith 6:49 am

• Trump Thinks Tariffs Can Bring Back the Glory Days of US Manufacturing. Here’s Why He’s Wrong
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

April 8, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Stealth Revealed
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• ‘We’​re Turning Into a Dictatorship’: Trump Tariffs Seen as Ploy to Further Consolidate Power
  by Yves Smith 11:43 am

• Links 4/8/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• What Is Blackwater Founder, Erik Prince, Doing in Ecuador a Week Before the Country’s Presidential Elections?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Why America Is Acting This Way on Trade: A Globotics Shock, a Failed Social Policy, and Middle-Class Fury
  by Yves Smith 3:22 am

• Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Enough.
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

April 7, 2025

• Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Starmer Government
  by Kevin Kirk 2:00 pm

• Links 4/7/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Focus on Market Rout from Overvalued Levels Diverting Attention from Real Economy DOGE, Particularly Social Security and Depth of Tariff Damage
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• ‘Greater Türkiye’ Faces Major Headwinds Abroad and at Home 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump Tariffs Run Over Already-Desperate Car Industry; Higher Prices, Job Cuts, and Supplier Closures Baked In
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Trade War Just Crashed Crude. Demand Might Be Next
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

April 6, 2025

• Links 4/6/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• As Global Conflicts Rage, Has Neoliberalism Already Won? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• USDA Cuts Hit Small Farms as Trump Showers Billions on Big Farms
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

April 5, 2025

• Links 4/5/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Trump’s Tariffs Are Extremely Dumb, Just Not For The Reasons You Might Think
  by Yves Smith 5:21 am

• Trump’s Non-Cooperative Game
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

April 4, 2025

• Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence.
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Private Equity Shares Tank Based on Trump Tariffs; Private Equity and Credit Crises Coming?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/4/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Why Does the US Want Everyone’s Biometric Data (Regardless of Who Is in the White House)?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Medicare Advantage Is Covering More and More Americans − Some Because They Don’t Get to Choose
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Another Trump Big Lie: “Reciprocal Tariffs”
  by Yves Smith 2:47 am

April 3, 2025

• Trump Deploys His Tariff Wrecking Ball; How Much Will the US Suffer Along with Most of the Rest of the World?
  by Yves Smith 10:28 am

• Links 4/3/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Iran Lacks the Leverage For a Fair Deal With the US
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Another “Covid Brain” Cognitive Impairment: Checklists?
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
  by Yves Smith 2:21 am

April 2, 2025

• New Gallup Poll Finds Health Care Affordability Falling: One-Third Cannot Afford Care
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 4/2/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Trump ‘Threat’ Helps Sell the War Racket in Canada and Europe
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Advertising Makes You Unhappy – By Design
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• GOP Lawmakers Eye SNAP Cuts, Reducing Benefits for the Low Income at a Time of High Food Prices
  by Yves Smith 3:17 am

April 1, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Bombing Yemen
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Bracing for the Fallout from Trump Tariff Delusions
  by Yves Smith 10:08 am

• Links 4/1/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• As Future of Panama Canal Hangs in Balance, Mexico Quietly Begins Testing Its Interoceanic Rail Corridor
  by Nick Corbishley 6:53 am

• Why Did the CDC Bury Its Latest Measles Forecast?
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Europe Scrambles To Revive Metals Industry
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am