Author Archives: Yves Smith
Mayberry v. KKR Plaintiffs File Amended Complaint, Refuting Standing Issues in Recent Kentucky Supreme Court Decision
Another front opens in the landmark public pension case, Mayberry v. KKR
Read more...Public Health Experts Fear a Hasty FDA Signoff on Vaccine
Experts have the willies about the rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine approved.
Read more...Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA
IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
Read more...Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?
Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?
Read more...AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...Links 7/28/2020
Google Postpones Employee Return till Mid 2021 as Office Buildings Remain Empty, Residential Delinquencies Soar
White collar workers staying away from the office does not bode well for confidence about getting Covid under control.
Read more...US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea
Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?
Read more...Our John Siman Wins Kukula Award for Non-Fiction Book Reviewing
John Siman wins a prize! Please join us in congratulating him!
Read more...Why Don’t Democratic Leaders Support Verifiable Elections? The Reason Is Simple and Obvious
Some evidence of design in the Democrats’ indifference to the integrity of elections.
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?
Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
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