Author Archives: Yves Smith

Links 8/9/19

Deskilling Among Manufacturing Production Workers

More evidence of how manufacturing workers have taken it on the chin.

New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change

This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.

CalPERS Staff Caught Out in Yet Another Power Grab, Tries Gagging the Board With Staff’s “Board Code of Conduct”

The CalPERS board continues to waste time on tinpot tyranny rather than focusing on the challenge of the penion system’s substantial underfunding.

Links 8/8/19

5 Reasons Why Trump’s Venezuela Embargo Won’t End the Maduro Regime

Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.

Doctors Argue Plans To Remedy Surprise Medical Bills Will ‘Shred’ The Safety Net

A PR campaign presenting the consumer fraud known as surprise billing as beneficial doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Australia Debates: Communist Party China the New Nazi Germany?

A row Down Under as a prominent and well placed MP says some not-nice things about China.

Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom

Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.

Apollo Doth Protest Too Much: Our Leon Black-Jeff Epstein Post Elicits Intervention by Apollo’s Flack

Apollo looks unduly anxious.

Low on Water, California Farmers Turn to Solar Farming

Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?

Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant

US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.

Michael Hudson: Why Frances Coppola’s “The Case for the People’s Quantitative Easing” Is for Banks, Not the People

A dubious proposal to continue over-reliance on monetary policy, this time with a quantitative easing scheme, instead of fiscal spending.