Author Archives: Yves Smith
Trump and Wealth-Price Inflation: Still Running in the Background All the Time
Demand by America’s most affluent is driving consumer spending. That spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high
Read more...Over-Planting of GM Corn Costing Farmers Billions, Study Finds
Yet another example of GM crop induced harm to farmers.
Read more...Charlie Krauss: What the Enron Egg Says About AI’s Nuclear Courtship
How nuclear small modular reactors (SMR) hype, with a boost from AI, has reached absurd, as in satire-suitable, levels.
Read more...Changing of the Guard: Lambert’s Weekend Finale as New Writers Take Up Posts
Lambert retires after his final posts over this weekend, but we hope you will enjoy the new contributors who aspire to fill his yellow waders
Read more...“COL. Douglas Macgregor : Why Is Trump Arming Ukraine?”
Trump says US citizens working in Ukraine on his minerals deal will be a deterrent, as in serve as a tripwire. Bye bye Russia peace pact?
Read more...Capital as Power in the 21st Century: A Conversation
An in-depth discussion by Michael Hudson, Jonathan Nitzan, Blair Fix and Tim Di Muzio of the capital as power framework and its explanatory value.
Read more...With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In
Why dietary supplement fans should be worried about RFK, Jr.’s plan to weaken their already lax regulation.
Read more...Demand for Electricity Takes Off. US Power Generation by Source in 2024: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Petroleum
Quelle surprise! Power demand surges thanks to data centers (AI, cloud, crypto) and increasing share of EVs.
Read more...Trump Will End His Option of Walking Away from Project Ukraine with His Minerals Deal
The Trump-Ukraine minerals deal is on track, and with it, US commitment to continue to support Ukraine.
Read more...COVID-19 in Context: A Retrospective View
A look at the state of knowledge when Covid-19 started its spread, and some of the questionable choices made despite that.
Read more...US Secondary Sanctions “Have Seriously Damaged” Russia-China Bilateral Cooperation
Russian experts say US secondary sanctions are damaging Russia-China commerce. But their solutions don’t seem to be close to implementation.
Read more...The Frog or the Scorpion: Do Democrats Really Need to Ask Who Caused the Mess We’re In?
Yes, the Democrats really are hopeless.
Read more...America First Deepens World Stagnation
Quelle surprise! America First is another leg down in the developing-country-unfriendly policies the Collective West has pursued.
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