American Life Expectancy Continues to Fall: Rise in Suicides, Overdose Deaths the Big Culprit
America’s falling life expectancy is a symptom of rising social distress.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Machine Learning and Economics
Some economists contend that machine learning and AI can improve economics.
Read more...Breaking Down What Climate Change Will Do, Region by Region
A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...CalPERS PR Messaging on Private Equity Backfiring as Lack of Justification, Flailing About, Become Obvious
CalPERS looks not just reckless but also foolish as it keeps rejiggering a dubious private equity scheme that it presented as ready to go months ago.
Read more...Can Zuckerberg Survive Facebook’s Stock Selloff?
To think it was not all that long ago that Zuckerberg was contemplating a presidential bid…
Read more...How Economists Impede Addressing Climate Change
Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...Brexit Is an Issue Too Deep To Go Away: It Will Be the Theme of English Politics for Decades to Come
Musings about what Brexit will mean to the British people.
Read more...Moscow & NATO Playing a ‘Dangerous Tit-For-Tat Game’ in the Ukraine
The Ukraine-Russia row heats up again.
Read more...Links 11/27/18
Overshadowed By Opioids, Meth Is Back And Hospitalizations Surge
An update on the meth epidemic.
Read more...You May Not Actually Own Your Bitcoin: Legal Expert
Yet another reason to be leery of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Read more...White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report
Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...Brexit: More Thrashing About
Expect Brexit craziness to get even worse.
Read more...As Zuckerberg Refuses to Testify, UK Seizes Thousands of ‘Potentially Explosive’ Documents Facebook Has Tried to Keep Secret
The costs of Mark Zuckerberg’s hubris keep rising.
Read more...
