Fundraiser 2020: What We Did for You in the Past Year
A review of our accomplishments this year and what we intend to do in the year ahead.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets
Why the riots of this summer resulted from the ever-increasing exploitation of low-income Americans, and how a Job Guarantee would reverse this power imbalance.
Read more...We Must Defeat the US Trade Deal
Why signing up to a US trade deal would mean a loss of sovereignity for the UK.
Read more...Coronavirus Economic Distress Hitting Indebted Professionals
Coronavirus damage is working its way up the economic food chain and is now hitting professionals in a meaninful way.
Read more...Ilargi: Why Trump Will Win
A contrarian reading on Trump’s prospects.
Read more...How Hospitals’ Profit Orientation Led to Covid-19 Unpreparedness
How hospitals set themselves to perform badly in pandemic conditions.
Read more...It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
Households and businesses are overloaded with debt. Richard Vague offers a set of proposals for how to restructure it.
Read more...How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South
How the New Democrats’ trade deals fractured the multi-racial coalition that Martin Luther King had helped forge in the South.
Read more...Telemedicine Tales
An MD who has supported telemedicine discusses some pitfalls in the Covid-era implementations.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities
A libertarian perspective on nobility, democracy, and lobbying.
Read more...Thousands of New York ‘Long Haulers’ Struggle with COVID-19 Months After Diagnosis
Some doctors estimate that there are as many as 70,000 “long Covid” patients in New York alone.
Read more...Demonizing Socialism and “Macroeconomic Populism”: Myths of Soft Budget Constraints
Some econmists have criticized industrial policy as zombie-crearting “macroeconomic populism.” Evidence indicates otherwise.
Read more...Brexit: Snake Eyes
Boris Johnson is pressing his Brexit luck, which wasn’t looking all that hot.
Read more...Isolation, Addiction, and Drug Use in the Covid-19 Moment
Covid is rough on pretty much everyone, but those with drug or other substance abuse issues are really on the ropes.
Read more...Trump’s Eviction Moratorium Opens the Door for Medicare for All by Executive Order
Since Covid-19 will be with us till at least the end oe 2021 (and I suspect longer), it opens the path for emergency Medicare for All.
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