Author Archives: Yves Smith

A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change

Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?

Why Interest Rate Rises Are Fueling Inflation

Is central bank inflatin medicine even worse than it seems?

Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them

Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.

ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”

Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care

Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health

A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?

Links 6/22/2023

Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings

Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.

Thus We Fall: June Temperature Spike Confirms Dire Climate Change Forecasts

The trajectory of climate change is starting to look worse.

A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves

Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.