Author Archives: Yves Smith

Could Direct Primary Care Be a Key Part in Solving America’s Health Care Crisis?

By cutting out the insurance middleman and ending pay for procedure, direct primary care saves costs and produces happier doctors and patients

JP Morgan Slashes Its 2018 Oil Price Forecast By $11

After some optimism about oil prices, an unexpectedly high EIA inventory report plus “no end in sight” in shale v. OPEC has analysts rattled.

Final UK Election Polls: YouGov Still the Outlier, Predicts Tories Get Only 302 Seats

Conventional wisdoms still pegs the Tories as comfortable winners in today’s election, with the election map working against Labour.

For ‘Easy Brexit’: May’s ‘No Deal’ Campaign Rhetoric Is Nonsense

If May holds on to her Prime Minister job, her irresponsible Brexit campaign talk may come back to haunt her.

Trump Using Failed Australian “Asset Recycling” to Justify Mass Privatizations

Why would Trump adopt a foreign model for infrastructure that even conservatives deemed a failure? Apparently for the looting.

Slugging It Out With a New Contender in the GMOs Debate

One of the big benefits claimed for GMOs may be false.

Republican Senators at Odds Over Medicaid in Obamacare Reform Push

Obamacare reform hits yet another roadblock.

Announcing Meetups for Dallas and Los Angeles

Announcing more meetups!

Measuring the Impact of Immigration on Wages: The Mariel Boatlift Controversy

125,000 mainly low-skill Cuban immigrants arrived in Miami in 1980. Economists are still debating whether they lowered local wages.

Links 6/6/17

How Global Audit Firms Are Using Their Lobbying Clout to Dilute Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms

Accounting firms have specific reasons to be nervous about Sarbanes-Oxley, hence their eagerness to weaken it.

Climate Change: “It Depends on How We They Value Time”

Why conventional economic approaches give dangerously misguided answers when applied to climate change.

Despite Wobbles, Theresa May Still Expected to Lead Conservative Win This Week

Despite Theresa May looking at risk in many UK polls, the distribution of seats in play may give the Tories the advantage.