Monthly Archives: July 2025

July 31, 2025

• Syria, the Middle East and the Question of the Nation-State
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Unexpected China Factory Contraction Confirms Deflationary Headwinds, Overcapacity
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/31/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Consumers Are Footing the Bill for AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Energy
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Long-COVID, Viruses and ‘Zombie’ Cells: New Research Looks for Links to Chronic Fatigue and Brain Fog
  by Yves Smith 1:56 am

• South America’s Sovereignty Is Being Lost in Big Tech’s Clouds
  by Yves Smith 1:02 am

July 30, 2025

• Coffee Break: Amway Oligarchy and Trump’s Willing Figureheads
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare? This Expert Thinks So
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/30/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Funding the Fundamentals of Biomedical Science: The National Institutes of Health in 2025 and Beyond
  by KLG 6:50 am

• CEOs Celebrate Even Bigger Wins in Class Warfare via Cutting Employment
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• The Post-Pandemic Disinflation: Low Sacrifice, High Prices
  by Yves Smith 3:26 am

July 29, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Money Weapon
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Hubert Horan: Can Airlines Get Passengers to Accept AI-Driven Personalized/Surveillance Pricing?
  by Yves Smith 9:50 am

• Plastic Surgery Mills, Many Owned by Private Equity, Sued for Producing Disfiguring Injuries and Deaths
  by Yves Smith 9:30 am

• Links 7/29/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Colombia Looks to Tighten Its Sanctions Against Israel As Europe “Loses Its Soul in Gaza”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Iran Refuses to Blink as Europe Eyes Snapback Sanctions
  by Yves Smith 5:09 am

July 28, 2025

• Coffee Break: Hunter Biden Passes the Joe Rogan Test
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• The EU-US Trade Deal: Von der Leyen Just Subordinated the EU as the US’ Largest-Ever Vassal State
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/28/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Cruel Executive Order on Homelessness Is Also Ineffective Policy—Unless Goal Is to Discipline Workers and Boost Prison Industry
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump’s Push for More Deportations Could Boost Demand for Foreign Farmworkers With ‘Guest Worker’ Visas
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Fed’s Rates Not Restrictive for Markets. Financial Conditions Ultra-Loose. Manias Form, Margin Debt Blows Out, Junk Bonds Party in La-La-Land
  by Yves Smith 4:07 am

July 27, 2025

• As White House Touts ‘Economic Boom,’ Americans Say They’re Barely Scraping By
  by Yves Smith 7:26 am

• Links 7/27/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Master Of The Flying Guillotine (1976) Run Time: 1H 33M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

July 26, 2025

• Links 7/26/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Church and Finance – From the Crusades to World War I
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Will Voters Turn to Corbyn and Socialism over Starmer’s Big Finance Love-In?
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

July 25, 2025

• Coffee Break: Fossil Fuels and Health, EPA, AI that Works, and a Belated Retraction
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Israel’s Atrocities Have Destroyed Its Reputation and Its Security
  by Yves Smith 9:59 am

• Links 7/25/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Washington and Beijing’s Mexican Standoff
  by Nick Corbishley 6:47 am

• A Pox on Optimism!
  by Yves Smith 2:28 am

• Thomas Neuburger: Rethinking Collapse
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

July 24, 2025

• When Politics and Finance Merge, Truth Surpasses Fiction
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Financial Times and Stanford Business School Describe How Private Equity Investors Like CalPERS Act Like the Dumb Money They Are
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/24/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Satyajit Das: Parsing President Trump’s Real Agenda
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Adams Asks Feds to Probe Conditions at Designed-to-Evade Supervision ICE Lockup in Manhattan
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

• The Incredible Impact of Ozzy Osbourne, from Black Sabbath to Ozzfest to 30 Years of Retirement Tours
  by Yves Smith 3:00 am

July 23, 2025

• Coffee Break: Gaza as Dress Rehearsal for War With China
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• How Can the Democrats Win Back the Working Class? Economic Populism
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/23/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• “How Much Longer Can We Trust Our Economic Statistics?”
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Abundance of Accelerationism: Democrat Rebrand Promises to Keep Foot on the Breakdown Gas 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• What the World Can Learn from Uruguay as the Global Housing Crisis Deepens
  by Yves Smith 3:55 am

July 22, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Poison Gas
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About the De Facto Asian NATO
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/22/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Brussels’ Latest Destructive Project, Culling the Euro Area’s Banks, Hits a Snag
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Africa’s Minerals Are Being Bartered for Security: Why It’s a Bad Idea
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages
  by Yves Smith 1:28 am

July 21, 2025

• Coffee Break: Trump Makes an Example Out of Paramount
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• AI and Workers’ Wellbeing: Lessons from Germany’s Early Experience
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/21/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• U.S. Inches Closer to Causing Major Caucasus Crisis With Offer to Administer Transport Corridor Between Turkey and Azerbaijan 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Can This Industry Be Saved? The Case of Natural Diamonds
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• ‘Farming in the Dark’: Brooke Rollins’ Leadership, DOGE’s Grip and the Cost to American Agriculture
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

July 20, 2025

• Links 7/20/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Farewell My Lovely (1975) Run Time: 1H 35M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Western Life Is Only One Way to Live
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

July 19, 2025

• Links 7/19/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Today’s Civilizational Conflict
  by Yves Smith 5:35 am

• When ‘Coexistence’ Is Co-Opted in Conservation Practice
  by Yves Smith 4:49 am

July 18, 2025

• Coffee Break: Garden of Healing, Good News on PEPFAR, Life in Biotech, and Our American Israel
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Good Riddance: CalPERS’ Atrocious General Counsel Matt Jacobs to Retire
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/18/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The All-Round Madness of Trump’s Tomato Tariffs
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Uneven Vulnerabilities: A Global Index of Climate Risk for Countries
  by Yves Smith 3:26 am

• Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Role of Class Warfare in Price Persistence
  by Yves Smith 1:58 am

July 17, 2025

• The 2016 Coup Attempt Revisited: Türkiye’s Transformation and Its Regional Impact
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Wars, Taxation, and Increases in Representation
  by Yves Smith 9:58 am

• Links 7/17/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?
  by Yves Smith 5:10 am

• “The Corporate Takeover of Housing”
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Project Nectar: Another Palantir Special
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

July 16, 2025

• Coffee Break: Elon Musk to Squeeze Tesla Shareholders to Juice xAI?
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Chinese Government Tries to Combat Destructive Deflation. Will It Succeed?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/16/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Hayek’s Bastards and the Rise of Neoliberalism
  by KLG 6:50 am

• Yanis Varoufakis: Who Needs Marx in 2025?
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Dutch Industry Buckles Under Energy Transition and Global Pressure
  by Yves Smith 5:52 am

July 15, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – AI Goes to War
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Insurers Dump Catastrophe Risk of Climate Change and Earthquake to Chump Bond Investors. What Could Go Wrong?
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• Links 7/15/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• What Birmingham’s Towering Trash Heaps Say About Starmer’s Britain
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Message to Trump: Incompetence Is Not Virtue. Also, People Will Die
  by Yves Smith 2:03 am

July 14, 2025

• Coffee Break: Texas Floods, Biblical Divorce Complicate US Senate Primary
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Possible Kraft Heinz Breakup: A Buffett Investment Failure, Thanks to Healthier Tastes Among the Better Off and Need for Better Bargains for the Rest
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/14/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• FEMA’s Flood Maps Often Miss Dangerous Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• “Europe Won’t Need Russian Gas in the Future”
  by Yves Smith 3:54 am

July 13, 2025

• Links 7/13/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Cloak And Dagger (1946) Run Time 1H 46M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

July 12, 2025

• Links 7/12/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late
  by Yves Smith 5:10 am

• Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Francis Ford Coppola’s Operas & Chamber Pieces
  by Yves Smith 2:41 am

July 11, 2025

• Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Billionaires Flail About Trying to Beat Mamdani; Wall Street Journal Describes Shambolic Plan to Spend $20 Million
  by Yves Smith 1:54 pm

• Links 7/11/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Trump (Probably) Just Did Lula a Massive Favour With His 50% Tariff Threat Against Brazil
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too
  by Yves Smith 3:34 am

• Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices
  by Yves Smith 2:59 am

July 10, 2025

• BRICS 2025: Propaganda and the Illusion of Change
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Del Monte Foods Goes Into Bankruptcy: A Trump Tariff Casualty
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/10/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Genius Act: This New US Crypto Law Could Pave the Way for the Next Global Financial Crisis
  by Yves Smith 3:16 am

• Early Job Mentoring, Placement, and Training Boost Refugee Integration Without High Costs
  by Yves Smith 2:27 am

• The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
  by Yves Smith 1:59 am

July 9, 2025

• Coffee Break: P. Diddy, RICO, Politicized Prosecutions
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• The Sad (Very Familiar) New York Times and Its Mamdani Hit Piece
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 7/9/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Chaos in the Caucasus: The Great Armenian Sell Out and Turkish/NATO Dreams of a Turan Corridor Stretching to China
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump Just Gave a Huge Gift to China’s Economy
  by Yves Smith 5:36 am

• “The Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened”: Von der Leyen Faces Impeachment Risk
  by Yves Smith 4:13 am

July 8, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Stab in the Back
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Will Russia Greatly Accelerate Its Ukraine Tempo to Facilitate Responding to Turkiye-Azerbaijan Threat to Iran?
  by Yves Smith 10:40 am

• Links 7/8/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Four Reasons Why the Tony Blair Institute’s Involvement in “Gaza Riviera” Project Should Surprise No One
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Centuries-Long History of Russophobia Opens the Doors to Cold War 2.0
  by Yves Smith 1:40 am

July 7, 2025

• Coffee Break: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Loves To Throw Good Money After Bad
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Hurricane Helene Set Up Future Disasters, From Landslides to Flooding – Cascading Hazards Like These Are Now Upending Risk Models
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Link 7/7/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Chaos in the Caucasus: Türkiye and Azerbaijan Make Their US-Israel-Backed Move Against Russia and Iran
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump’s Self-Destructive Fight with the Fed for Low Interest Rates: His “Fiscal Dominance” Game of Chicken
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• The UK Aims to Entrench Its Influence in Estonia in Order to Lead the Arctic-Baltic Front
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

July 6, 2025

• Links 7/6/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Night Strangler (1973) Run Time: 1H 30M2
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• The Gates Foundation’s Global Reach Expands, to Mixed Reviews
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

July 5, 2025

• Links 7/5/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Why UK [and US] Governments Are Never Dependent on Financial Markets
  by Yves Smith 6:29 am

• Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record High Despite Green Efforts
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

July 4, 2025

• Coffee Break: Ancient Food Facts, Cancer Therapy, the Conscious Brain, and Biohacking with Biotech…Plus Thomas Jefferson
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• How Global Value Chains, Much Hyped by Development Experts, Slowed Growth and Preserved Inequality in Middle Income Countries
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• This Time It’s Official: Mexico Is Going to the BRICS Summit
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Trump’s Neo-Stalinist Pentagon Photo Purge
  by Yves Smith 2:12 am

• Holiday Special: Dimash Sings Edith Piaf’s Hymne à l’Amour
  by Yves Smith 12:56 am

July 3, 2025

• Palantir’s AI Justified Israel’s Attack on Iran — Will Tech Take Us Back to Irrational Beliefs?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Links 7/3/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: The Collapse of America’s Economic Empire
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Trump’s Homeland Security Council Sets Its Sights on Zohran Mamdani
  by Yves Smith 2:26 am

• The Plebeian Council as an Example for Modern Citizen Empowerment
  by Yves Smith 12:24 am

July 2, 2025

• Coffee Break: Rahm Emanuel’s Kayfabe Candidacy
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• The Rule of Law Is Key to Capitalism − Eroding It Is Bad News for American Business
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• Links 7/2/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Trust in Science, Public Health, and Politics: Lessons from COVID-19
  by KLG 6:50 am

• Broligarchs Demand Silicon Valley Bank 2.0: What Could Go Wrong?
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Sustainable Investment Stumbles on Uncertain Pace of Energy Transition
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

July 1, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Are You Not Entertained?
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• The Latest Trouble In Russian-Azerbaijani Relations Might Be Part Of A Turkish-US Powerplay
  by Yves Smith 9:44 am

• Links 7/1/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is Washington Trying to Provoke a Full-Blown Banking Crisis in Mexico?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• CalPERS Retiree Group Launches GoFundMe for Investigation on Private Equity Fees
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• “Ex-CISA Official Warns: We’ve Gutted Cybersecurity—A Gift to Iran, China and Russia”
  by Yves Smith 2:05 am