Author Archives: Yves Smith
Decisive Win for Pensioners, Taxpayers in Kentucky as Judge Wingate Rejects Attorney General’s “Get Out of Jail for Almost Free” Scheme for KKR and Blackstone
The plaintiffs seeking to claw back funds from misbehaving finance titans like KKR and Blackstone continue their winning streak.
Read more...They Looted Companies — Now They’re Looting the Government
Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...Trump Doubles Down on Gaza Cruelty With Threat to Cut UN World Food Programme Funding if the UN Rejects US Scheme (and a BRICS Note)
Another US disgrace in the form of a threat against the World Food Programme to advance a US son-of-floating pier scheme to feed Gazans.
Read more...“How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
Read more...Links 5/10/2025
Michael Hudson: The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
Read more...How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
Some hopeful independent media news, here on the radio front.
Read more...“The US Trade Deal Is a Bad Deal, and It Has the Potential to Get Worse”
The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Read more...Currency Wars, Class Warfare, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid – but will that fly among Trump supporters?
Read more...Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them?
Further discussion of the reductivist “Your with us or your against us” world view, which Newspeak-wise, is being reduced to hatred of Them.
Read more...Martin Wolf’s “The old global economic order is dead”
A look at two factoids in a new Martin Wolf article illustrate why our economic mess seems intractable….and not just for the feckless US.
Read more...Karma Arriving? Times of Israel Frets Over Trump Abandonment With Houthis and Perhaps Even Iran
Is Trump leaving an overextended Israel to its own devices with his Yemen deal and Iran talks?
Read more...A US or UK Hidden Hand? “How an India-Pakistan War Could Derail Central Asia’s Future”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Asif contends that acting as a US operative helped prime the current India-Pakistan conflict. Does he have a point?
Read more...Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists
Some raised eyebrows over a Trump Administration big spend for a possible flu vaccine.
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