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Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Who Loses Out From Covid-Induced Changes in Buying Patterns?
Why for some sectors of the economy, life after Covid may never be the same.
Read more...UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.
Read more...A Tale of Two Elections: U.S. and Bolivia
US sanctimoniousness about the importance of elections respecting popular will does not apply outside our borders.
Read more...Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Read more...Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
Read more...We Are Fourteen Years Old
Fourteen years old and (hopefully) still making lots of trouble!
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Read more...Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
Read more...Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
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