Author Archives: Yves Smith
China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
More on “Whither China?”
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
Read more...Market Capitalism
Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.
Read more...John le Carré Was a 21st Century Writer
Le Carré as a subversive anti-imperialist.
Read more...Links 12/15/2020
More CO2 in the Atmosphere Hurts Key Plants and Crops More Than It Helps
A primer on CO2 and crops.
Read more...Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Vaccine profiteering is very much with us, even during a pandemic.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
Read more...Authoritative Consultant Slams Private Equity in Journal Article: Cheap Index Funds and In House Buys Beat PE Funds
Yet another authoritative source slams private equity returns.
Read more...Macroeconomics, Money (MMT Style) and Post-Brexit Recovery, All in One Twitter thread
Money, lending, government spending, QE….all explained in one tidy post!
Read more...Links 12/12/2020
Robert McChesney: The Decline of American Journalism
Why is US journalism in the crapper?
Read more...The Failure of the Public Health Establishment
Questioning whether the public health response to Covid is really about protecting the public.
Read more...Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
More discussion of how to get the dogs to eat the vaccine dogfood.
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