Author Archives: Yves Smith
A Covid Tragedy: “Wholesale Discrediting of Our Health Science Institutions”
How science, or perhaps more accurately, “Trust the science,” is dangerously being treated as just another political chip.
Read more...Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.
Read more...Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?
Biden”s Central America plan includes US funding of domestic security forces to keep citizens put and support foreign economic exploitation.
Read more...Godzilla vs. Kong: A Functional Morphologist Uses Science to Pick a Winner
Godzilla lives!
Read more...Links 3/30/2021
We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History
Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.
Read more...Philanthrocapitalists: The Pied Pipers of ‘Modern Slavery’?
Hundreds of millions of dollars for anti-trafficking/slavery sidesteps how rich countries exploit labour in poor nations.
Read more...Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Read more...Links 3/27/2021
Russia and China Are Sending Biden a Message: Don’t Judge Us or Try to Change us. Those Days Are Over
The initial Biden foreign policy backfires are leading to even more cooperation betwen China and Russia.
Read more...Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
Read more...Incomplete and Indecisive USPS Board Flounders and Awaits Direction
Despite Biden moving to fill open USPS board seats, don’t get your hopes up.
Read more...Ships, Chips, and IPs: The High Costs of Tight Coupling
Tight coupling explains how innocent bystanders wind up suffering under neoliberal regimes: unwillingness to incur costs to increase safety.
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