Author Archives: Yves Smith
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Read more...How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed shareholder value ideology.
Read more...At What Level Will Saudi Arabia And Russia Stop Pushing Oil Prices Higher?
Russia and Saudi Arabia seem finally to have gotten the oil price increases they wanted. How much higher might they go?
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Read more...Has the West Closed All Its Project Ukraine Exits?
Have the US and NATO managed to box themselves in with the Ukraine war?
Read more...A Sign that the West Is Having to Compete for Emerging Economy Loyalty? Long Overdue Progress on Africa-Instigated International Tax Reform
After long resistance by rich nations, African governments successfully pushed for the UN to lead on international tax cooperation.
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Read more...Links 9/9/2023
The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room
Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.
Read more...WaPo Reported That Ukrainians Are Distrustful of the West & Flirting With a Ceasefire
The Post reports that Ukrainians are worried that the West might largely abandon them. But their ideas of what happens then are way too rosy.
Read more...Stephen: Naked Capitalism – Your Torch Through the Media Murk
How Naked Capitalism helped one reader realize how much he wasn’t being told.
Read more...Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges
While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.
Read more...Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?
How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.
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