Author Archives: Yves Smith
The Duran: US Economic Decline and Rise of Greater Eurasia – Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
Some Naked Capitalism favorite experts, Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen, ponder the implications of the rise of Eurasia.
Read more...Europe’s New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
New EU fiscal rules, touted as creating and economic growth, actually embody a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
Read more...China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs): Ponzi Finance on Steroids
How China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) became China’s most complex economic challenge.
Read more...Ukraine Plan of Crocus City Hall Attack to Start Ethnic Pogroms, Civil War in Russia
An in-depth discussion of the apparent Ukraine/Western plan to use the Crocus City Hall massacre to stoke ethnic hostilities in Russia.
Read more...Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks − Countries Facing Extreme Heat May Try It Anyway, and the World Needs to be Prepared
Like it or not, climate engineering is coming. What are some of the implications?
Read more...“On a Relative Scale, There’s a Strong Case that Financialization Is Worse in the PRC than the US”
On a relative basis, China is more financialized than the US which is not a pretty picture.
Read more...The Energy Transition: Technology Versus Political Backlash
A look at some of the reasons why the energy transition is running behind schedule.
Read more...A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values
Home insurance will become catastrophically expensive and may even vanish in some parts of the US. What happens then?
Read more...Paris Wants to Show Strength, but Faces Geopolitical Crisis in Africa
A status report on France losing its hold in Africa.
Read more...Yellen Trip to China: Biden Administration Presumption and Cluelessness on Display
The US is at it again with China, despite acting like it wants to repair fractured relations.
Read more...Links 4/3/2024
Electric War Goes West – Depopulation Turns Into Displacement Turns Into Civil War in Galicia
More on how Russia is expected to use its electric supply attacks to depopulate key Ukraine cities.
Read more...The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack Up Its War and Go Home
The US is being run out of Niger. A lot of our “hegemon forever” spending is going down the drain.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
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