Author Archives: Yves Smith

Putin Orders Reality Check – No Ukrainians Left on the Battlefield, No Sovereignty in Kiev

Putin and the Foreign Minsitry explain why Russia will not sign a treaty with the territory known as Ukraine over ending the conflict.

From Pugachev To Lebed – The Muzhik Rebellion Fizzles Out Without Bloodshed, Prigozhin to Exile

The Prigozhin rebellion is looking to be not that much more than a one day wonder.

Links 6/24/2023

Fog of Prigozhin: His Bizarre and Surely Doomed Military Revolt

Prigozhin has really completely lost it. But is his revolt as big a threat as the Western press seems to believe?

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.