Author Archives: Yves Smith

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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.

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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Has the West Closed All Its Project Ukraine Exits?

Have the US and NATO managed to box themselves in with the Ukraine war?

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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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.

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.

Stephen: Naked Capitalism – Your Torch Through the Media Murk

How Naked Capitalism helped one reader realize how much he wasn’t being told.

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.

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.

My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further Out of Sight

There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.