Author Archives: Yves Smith
CalPERS Election Dirty Tricks: Hit Piece Depicts Board Member Margaret Brown as Safety Harrasser
Northeast Pummeled with Colossal Flooding, Destructive Tornadoes
Ida’s epic flooding is likely to become part of an extreme weather new normal.
Read more...Mask Mandates Save Lives
Who’d have thunk it? Those crazy doctors in operating rooms are on to something. Masks work.
Read more...The Cost of Corporate America: Checking Your Conscience at the Door
Reflections on the moral cost of being a corporate citizen.
Read more...‘Catastrophic Injustice’: Judge OKs Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan Shielding Sacklers
Tens of thousands dead and the Sacklers get to ride away with their Purdue Pharma loot.
Read more...Lack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
Why most hospitals aren’t imposing vaccine mandates.
Read more...Star Trek Versus Imperialist Doctrine
In praise of the Star Trek Prime Directive and the idealism of (some) science fiction writers.
Read more...Links 9/1/2021
Behold the Watered Stock’s New Variant!
Back to the future! Welcome to the successor to a 19th century favorite, watered stock.
Read more...Michael Hudson v. George Soros on China’s Rejection of “Market” Capitalism
Soros has a hissy over China’s Xi no longer wanting to play nicely with foreign investors.
Read more...Prominent CalPERS Retiree Group Warns California Secretary of State About Illegal, Hacking-Friendly Voting Methods
An important CalPERS beneficiary group calls out the fund’s use of illegal, insecure, fraud-friendly internet and phone voting.
Read more...Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
The US “lost” AFghanistan by enriching military contractors and grifters, um, mercenaries, and plans to continue to punish the Afghan people
Read more...EXPOSED: How CalPERS Tried and Continues to Try to Cover Up Former Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng’s Misconduct
A CalPERS case study in “The cover up is worse than the crime,” Ben Meng edition.
Read more...‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
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