Author Archives: Yves Smith
The Catherine Principle for Negotiating With the Turks – Let Arms Do the Talking
Why Catherine the Great’s lessons for dealing with Turks are still operative.
Read more...Revillaging: Looking to Our Roots as We Redesign Towns and Cities
Revillaging as a way to improve communities by improving daily life.
Read more...China Could Start A New Solar Price War
Why cheaper solar panels out of China might not be an unalloyed blessing.
Read more...Airlines: Bleeding from Coronavirus, and Worse to Come
Coronavirus carnage continues, particularly at bankruptcy-prone airlines.
Read more...Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
Is the seamy side of fracking the only side?
Read more...Coronavirus: Kids About as Likely as Adults to Become Infected; What Happens When School Closures Become Widespread?
Coronavirus is already causing large-scale school closures abroad; what happens when that becomes the new normal in the US?
Read more...‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
Read more...Links 3/5/2020
Chief Justice John Roberts Denounces Chuck Schumer’s ‘Threatening’ Remarks About Gorsuch and Kavanaugh
Chuck Schumer channeled his inner Trump. The results were not pretty.
Read more...New MH17 Leak – Dutch Prosecutors Have Received No US Satellite Evidence of the Shoot-Down by a Buk Missile
Yves here. Helmer is still keeping tabs on MH17 developments. By John Helmer, Moscow. Twitter: @bears_with. Originally published at Dances With Bears A new document, leaked from the files of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in The Netherlands, reveals that Dutch prosecutors told the Australian, Belgian and Ukrainian representatives on the team, that the US […]
Read more...How Books and Bookshops Improve Our Mental Health – And Why We Must Protect Them
Books as therapy.
Read more...Banks and Landlords Have To Pick Up the Costs of the Pandemic To Come to Forestall a Depression
Why banks and landlords (and the health care industry) need to pay their share of coronavirus costs.
Read more...Brexit: Pawing and Snorting
In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
Read more...According to the WHO, Coronavirus Is WORSE Than the Spanish Flu … Which Killed Tens of Millions of People
A short public service message intended for those who still think the coronavirus is not a big deal.
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