Author Archives: Yves Smith

Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats

Ticketmaster wants to use technology to make events safer. Too bad its ideas are intrusive and medically questionable.

Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium

Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.

Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures

Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?

Home Health Aide Services for the Elderly as a Lemon Market

Some shaggy dog stories and analysis on wh the home health care aide industry performs poorly, at least here in the US.

Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread

And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….

What Did You Miss While You Were Following the US Elections?

Since the US elections weren’t the only recent event of importance, an international news smorgasbord.

Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party

Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.

The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem

The more you look at Pfizer’s vaccine, the more you have to think they really really needed that first mover advantage.

Links 11/10/2020

Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak

The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.

Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief?

Rumor, as in press reports, has it that Biden plans to install uber hawk Michèle Flournoy as Secretary of Defense.