Brexit and Inertia
Things have changed very little on the Brexit front, which is not good.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little… And Cost So Much?
Ruminations on the nature of work and employment.
Read more...Indian Farmers Are Staring at Suicide as Modi Government Looks the Other Way
An account from India on farmer suicide and why many could have been prevented.
Read more...Links 7/23/2020
Pathbreaking Public Pension Case Mayberry v. KKR Is Back From the Dead as Kentucky Attorney General Joins Case
The unexpected resurrection of the pathbreaking pension lawsuit Mayberry v. KKR is a welcome but politically extremely puzzling development.
Read more...Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Read more...Marketing Is the Original Behavioral Economics
Showing that behavioral economics is just marketing wine in new bottles.
Read more...How Mitch McConnell’s Hostility to the Unemployment Supplement Puts Ordinary Americans’ Welfare at Risk
Republicans intend to shoot themselves and the economy in the head out of ideological rigidity by killing the unemployment supplement.
Read more...Ohio House Speaker Arrested in Alleged $60 Million Racketeering, Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme; A Window Into Politics in America
Ohio’s biggest political corruption case is a doozy, with riveting racketeering charges and lots of dirty tricks.
Read more...Boeing 737 Max Ungrounding Pushed Back Again; WSJ Sources Say Early 2021
Moar bad news for the 737 Max.
Read more...Random Testing in Indiana Shows COVID-19 is 6 Times Deadlier Than Flu, and 2.8% of the State Has Been Infected
Sobering data from the first random statewide Covid-19 survey.
Read more...Recovery of Collapsed Airline Traffic in the US Backtracks
Traffiic data confirmed warnings by United and Delta of re-declining ticket sales, seinding airline shares down 3.7% intraday.
Read more...Links 7/21/2020
COVID-19 and the Garment Industry’s Invisible Hands
How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.
Read more...Immaculate Deception, Fed Style
The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.
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