Leaving NYC
Your humble blogger plans to leave NYC.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Warren’s Antitrust Proposal: Should We Break Up Big Tech, or Just Regulate It Better?
While it is gratifying to see Senator and presidential contender Elizabeth Warren focusing on antitrust and the abuse of monopoly power, her $25 billlion fix looks too simplistic.
Read more...A Veblen Moment: Thorstein Veblen’s Lessons from the First Gilded Age Even More Relevant Today
Veblen was early and accurate about the behaviors and dangers of the super rich. Tthe advanced world is re-living his warnings.
Read more...Italy: How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
How Italy became an economic mess.
Read more...Brexit: Torygeddon?
The Tories are starting to bear the cost of the Brexit fiasco.
Read more...Are You Biased Against Nuclear Power? Yup, Say Scientists
Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
Read more...Gail Tverberg: The True Feasibility of Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...Reminder: Washington DC Meetup Tomorrow, Friday April 12 with Matt Stoller
More details for our Washington DC meetup this Friday. Hope you can stop by!
Read more...UK-Based Multinational Department Store Debenhams Collapses After 200 Years of Trading. Thank Private Equity
Debenhams follows the sad and well trodden path of retailers bought by private equity firms.
Read more...MMT, Models, Multidisciplinarity
Pavlina Tcherneva does the heavy lifting of debunking an off-the-mark attack on MMT by Noah Smith.
Read more...Links 4/10/19
Brexit: Mayhem
What will the EU dispose on Brexit?
Read more...World Bank Financialization Strategy Serves Big Finance
The World Bank continues its proud tradition of making the world safe for rentiers, um, financiers.
Read more...Ukrainian Prosecutors: Why Doesn’t the U.S. Dept. of Justice Want Our Evidence on Democrats?
Ukrainian dirt on the Bidens is languishing! Why is that?
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