Author Archives: Yves Smith
Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings
Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.
Read more...Thus We Fall: June Temperature Spike Confirms Dire Climate Change Forecasts
The trajectory of climate change is starting to look worse.
Read more...A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves
Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.
Read more...Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
Read more...Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator
When you thought the US might finally have hit bottom on the China front, we show we can reach new lows.
Read more...Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?
Read more...The Economic Effects of Military Support for Ukraine: Evidence from Fiscal Multipliers in Donor Countries
An argument that spending on Ukraine is not quite as unproductive as it seems.
Read more...Links 6/20/2023
The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth
The bloody war in Ukraine has reached the carnage phase, as least for Urkaine’s men and their backers.
Read more...Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent
Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.
Read more...Blinken-Qin Talks in Beijing: US and China Agree to Keep Talking Past Each Other
Readouts from a meeting between Anthony Blinken and his counterpart Qin Gang indicate the US and China are barely communicating.
Read more...Mammoth RICO Lawsuit Targets Credit Suisse, Many of its Directors and Execs, and KPMG for Over a Decade of Fraudulent, Reckless Conduct
Credit Suisse, or more accurately, buyer UBS, some execs/board members, and KPMG are targets in a monster RICO suit.
Read more...Profit Inflation Is Real
More evidence that companies hiking prices because they can is a significant driver of our current inflation.
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