Iowa, Democrats, and Elite Incompetence
Team Dem gets lots of egg on its face in Iowa.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing
Uber and other gig economy employers: “Let them eat a charter.”
Read more...Public Health Officials Offer Scant Details On U.S. Coronavirus Patients
Experts discuss US measures for dealing with coronavirus cases.
Read more...Coronavirus: Australia Faces Calamity
Identifying likely economic road kill from the coronavirus outbreak.
Read more...Brexit: Warmed Over Chicken
Brexit trade talks are about to begin. The UK is back in drama queen mode.
Read more...Shall We Have a Dallas Meetup Thursday February 13?
Up for a Dallas meetup next week?
Read more...Links 2/1/2020
Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
Fed tightening is no longer needed to create recessions, given fragile credit structures and a growing pandemic out of China.
Read more...Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.
Read more...Student Enrollment Dropped 11% Since 2011, Student-Loan Balances Surged 74%. Why?
Drilling into why the student loan problem keeps getting worse.
Read more...Links 1/31/2020
US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
Read more...Brexit D-Day
The big Brexit day is here.
Read more...How Iowa Chooses National Convention Delegates and What That Means For Us
Explaining the Iowa Caucus Rube Goldberg machine.
Read more...Secular Stagnation: Demand Is Indeed the Culprit
Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.
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