Author Archives: Yves Smith
Carillion Collapse Will Leave Taxpayers With Big Bills, Produce Knock-On Failures; Shows Danger of “Public/Private Partnerships”
A first look at the implications of the failure of Carallion, a top UK infrastructure firm and provider of outsourced services to governments
Read more...Why Urban Farming Is Key in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change
How urban farming can help alleviate food stress and buffer climate pressures.
Read more...Hawaii Nuke Scare Due to Lousy User Interface
Bad software played a leading role in the Hawaii nuclear panic of last weekend.
Read more...CES Shows That the Future Will Not Work
The top consumer tech show in the US was chock full of products that visibly did not work, and no one seemed bothered.
Read more...Why Pretty Much Everything You Know About Depression Is Wrong
A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Read more...Careers and Families of High-Skilled Women in the Age of High Inequality
Who’d have thunk it? Cheap servants mean high income career women have more kids.
Read more...Trump’s Gift to the Climate Movement
How Trump’s climate change denialism helps activists.
Read more...How Money Won Trump the White House
Contrary to media reports, Trump made significant contributions to his Presidential campaign.
Read more...Links 1/12/18
Nomi Prins: My Financial Road Map for 2018
Some crystal ball gazing for 2018.
Read more...Voting Matters
Musing on the vagaries of voting in the US.
Read more...Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade
The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.
Read more...Answers from the MMTers
Serious Economist Jared Bernstein asked some questions about MMT. MMT thinkers Stephanie Kelton and Randy Wray.
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