Author Archives: Yves Smith

Financing a Global Green New Deal: System Change Needed

Discussion of a contested topic: How to pay for a Green New Deal.

Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck

Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.

A New Pipeline Could Undo America’s Influence In Asia

A China-Pakistan pipeline deal bodes ill for the US.

Links 11/23/19

Making Sense of Bolivia’s Discontent

Unpacking the many political and policy contradictions in Bolivia over the past decade.

Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate

A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.

US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet

Another medical data horrorshow.

On TV, Political Ads Are Regulated – But Online, Anything Goes

We’ve had over two years of pearl-clutching about political ads in the Internet era. What if anything should be done?

‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Vulture Fund Buys Majority Stake at Tribune Publishing

Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital “is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry.”

Links 11/21/19

Wolf Richter: The Fed Slaps Down Negative Interest Rates

The first major discussion of negative interest rates recounted in the FOMC minutes show serious disapproval.

“The UN Is Being Turned into a Public-Private Partnership”: Harris Gleckman Explains Stealth Takeover by World Economic Forum

Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.