Author Archives: Yves Smith
Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism
Yanis Varioufakis discusses the emerging shape of postcapitalism.
Read more...Earl Katz: Regenerative Agriculture and Massive Planting of Trees is Our Only Hope
Earl Katz, an early climate change warrior, looks at the dwindling number of options humans have for alleviating global warming.
Read more...How the Agricultural Lobby Is Sabotaging Europe’s Green Deal
The European Commission’s ambitous Green Deal plans are already stumbling over bureaucratic infighting and ag industry opposition.
Read more...Looting, American Style: CEOs Get Big Pre-Bankruptcy Bonuses Even When Lenders and Employees Stiffed
Failed CEOs succeed in looting their companies on the verge of bankruptcy filings.
Read more...Saudi Arabia Refuses To Learn From Its Two Failed Oil Price Wars
The oil situation has developed not necessarily to Saudi Arabia’s advantage, but MbS appears not to have gotten the memo.
Read more...Global Warming Is Accelerating. (In Other News, Democrats Reverse Platform, Won’t End Fossil Fuel Subsidies)
The Democrats busy themselves with a self-love fest as they ignore more and more dire evidence of the progress of global warming.
Read more...Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick
More evidence in support of masks.
Read more...Links 8/20/2020
Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part II – The Strategy
Where you wind up when you take libertarian ideas to their logical conclusion…..
Read more...How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
How consolidation in dairy processing has led to overproduction of milk and dumping.
Read more...Apollo’s Leon Black, Found in Serial Child Rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book, Patronized Strip Club in Russia With Trump
Apollo’s Leon Black needs to develop better taste in friends.
Read more...Fiscal Austerity and the Rise of the Nazis
Local economic data and election results in Weimar Germany shows that more acute austerity led to more Nazi support.
Read more...Fed Economists Finger Monopoly Concentration as Underlying Driver of Neoliberal Economic Restructuring; Barry Lynn in Harpers and Fortnite Lawsuit Put Hot Light on Tech Monopoly Power
Some good work on monopoly is marred by the bizarre inclusion of Uber. Its predatory pricing is the result of deep pockets and ideology, not potential market power.
Read more...As Courts Re-Open, Britain’s Renters Must Confront the Power of Landlords
Renters and landlords need to come to terms in the Covid-19 new normal. But it’s not shaping up to be pretty.
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