Author Archives: Yves Smith

Join Lambert and the NC Commentariat for a SOTU Live Blog/Open Thread Tomorrow Starting @ 8:45 PM

If you feel compelled to watch the SOTU, keep your sanity and partake of some lively commentary by visiting our live blog tomorrow night!

“Is There Anything That Working Less Does Not Solve?”

Your humble blogger thinks that work gets a bum rap, when the real problem is with jobs.

Rewriting the History of the Vietnam War, to the Detriment of Everyone Save the Military-Industrial Complex

Identifying the main players behind Vietnam War revisionist history and how they have succeed in forging disastrous policies.

Links 1/28/18

Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections for Migratory Birds, Drawing Bipartisan Condemnation

Team Trump cuts environmental protections yet again, this time at the expense of migratory birds.

Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’

An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.

Links 1/26/18

Latest Tory Brexit Row: Another Bun Fight or a Cage Match?

More Brexit hissing and spitting from the Tories.

Mastercard Pushes Biometrics, Banks Follow

Mastercard and other financial services providers are aggressively promoting biometrics. Where are the vaunted EU privacy regulators?

Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster

A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.

A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses

Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.

Links 1/25/18

Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids

More grifting, Amazon-style.

Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs

How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.