Author Archives: Yves Smith
A Theory or Two of These Grim Times
A theory about why things are a mess.
Read more...We Broke Down the Last Decade of Climate Change in 7 Charts
Some key climate change factoids.
Read more...AI and the Productivity Paradox
AI has not delivered expected productivity gains. Some thoughts as to why.
Read more...Extending Sort of Comments Holiday
We didn’t really have a comments holiday…so we are extending our “reduced comments” compromise to allow Jules Dickson a proper break.
Read more...Trump, Granting Lobbyist Demands, Quietly Handed Billions More in Tax Breaks to Huge Corporations: Report
Team Trump keeps soldiering along with its pro-corporate agenda.
Read more...Australia Burning; Tourists in New South Wales and Victoria Flee to Beaches
A grim take from smoky Australia.
Read more...Links 12/28/19
7 Science-Based Strategies To Boost Your Willpower and Succeed with Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s self-improvement! Tips on how to organize your life to as to improve your willpower.
Read more...Reports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar
Another KHN scoop on how the FDA has been hiding reports of bad outcomes with medical devices, in this case, ones for heart disease.
Read more...Links 12/27/19
The Loss of Fair Play
How the importance of at least pretending to be fair has eroded, and why that matters.
Read more...How Amazon Gains Control & Domination
Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
Read more...A Christmas Sampler
Dear patient readers, I was going to write a post about gift-giving but I had too many non-convergent ideas for it besides wanting to reminisce about my favorite childhood gifts, all for transportation! A sled, a Flexible Flier, which ironically introduced me to infinity (the Flexible Flier had a little image of a Flexible Flier […]
Read more...How Crisco Toppled Lard – and Made Americans Believers in Industrial food
How the successful marketing of Cricso led Americans to accept all sorts of mystery branded foods.
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