Author Archives: Yves Smith
Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman
Why Elon Musk, despite having built significant operating companies, is still mainly in the bezzle business.
Read more...Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.
Read more...US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well
Despite promoters’ claims, infrastructure projects often aren’t great public successes.
Read more...Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report
A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.
Read more...More Hospitals Nearing Breaking Point as Covid Spikes; Skrimping on Nurses’ Pay Made Bad Situation Worse
Nurses get a lot of lip service, but not enough pay or respect, and that contrasted with Covid risks has led to many quitting.
Read more...This Reddit Lament Sums Up Wonderfully What Lots of Home Buyers Will Grapple with as Housing Market “Normalizes” and Work from Home Fizzles
As Covid-exodus home purchases peters out, over-eager buyers are waking up with hangovers.
Read more...Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
Read more...IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean
The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling
How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.
Read more...The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far
Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.
Read more...Globalization, Specialization, and the Division of Labour
A new angle on why workers lose out as globalization increases.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection.
Read more...Eric Topol Discusses Covid Vaccines Not Meeting Expectations, Breakthrough Cases Sicker
The data on US Covid cases and deaths are bad enough that members of the science establishment like Eric Topol are questioning the vaccines
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