International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Link 1/9/18
CalPERS Launches Illegal, Corrupt, Unjustified and Beneficiary-Damaging Private Equity “Strategic Partner” Search Obviously Designed to Favor BlackRock
CalPERS looks to be handing the private equity keys to BlackRock in a breathtakingly crooked process.
Read more...The Link Between Neoliberalism, Perfectionism, and Mental Health Disorders
Perfectionism is rising among the young, and that’s not a good thing.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Story of 2017 (Part 2)
Why the ordinary-ness of 2017 is in some ways as important as its unusual moments.
Read more...China Fails to Woo U.S. With Financial Sector Opening
Why is the US cool about concessions from China that the US has long sought?
Read more...Meltdown and Spectre: Intel’s Seismic IT Disaster and A Look at Some Implication for Banks
A first look at the epic IT disaster of the Meltdown and Spectre “flaws”.
Read more...How to Create Collective Intelligence
How can humans increase the “intelligence” with which they operate?
Read more...Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.
Read more...Poop in the Loop and Other Big Cities
Big cities make dog owners responsible for cleaning up after them, so why is no one making police take care of their horse poop?
Read more...Don’t Miss Our “Come in From the Cold” NYC Meetup This Friday!
A reminder: hope you can attend our NYC meetup this Friday!
Read more...Links 1/6/18
From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
Read more...A Remedy for Corruption
From the health care front, positive developments and ideas to serve as a remedy to the usual diet of distressing news.
Read more...Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
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