Author Archives: Yves Smith
Thanksgiving Alone
On withstanding the pressure to have a normal Thanksgiving.
Read more...Leaked US Trade Talks Show How Trump Is Dictating Johnson’s Approach to a Hard Brexit
Far from Brexit letting the UK takw back control, it has entered into a relationship where it holds none of the cards.
Read more...BBVA Compass Branch Manager Retaliates Against Elderly Customer Via Trying to Have State Agency Deem Her Incompetent on Fabricated Grounds
A BBVA Compass vice president retaliates against a long-standing customer for seeking an Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation and documenting his incompetent, high-handed responses.
Read more...The Privatized Internet — Entire .ORG Domain Registry Sold to Investment Equity Firm “Ethos Capital”; Registration Fee Restrictions Removed
Private equity grifting meets internet domain names.
Read more...Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry
How the Fed’s fingerprints are all over the repo mess.
Read more...Links 11/26/19
Financing a Global Green New Deal: System Change Needed
Discussion of a contested topic: How to pay for a Green New Deal.
Read more...Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck
Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.
Read more...A New Pipeline Could Undo America’s Influence In Asia
A China-Pakistan pipeline deal bodes ill for the US.
Read more...The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Read more...Are Evidence-Based Decisions Impossible in Politics?
How human psychology and institutional incentives undermine making good decisions in the political arena, and what can be done about that.
Read more...Links 11/23/19
>/a>Making Sense of Bolivia’s Discontent
Unpacking the many political and policy contradictions in Bolivia over the past decade.
Read more...Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
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