Author Archives: Yves Smith
Game Finally On! Judge Denies Key Motions to Dismiss in Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation, Subjecting KKR, Blackstone, PAAMCO, and Top Financiers Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Steve Schwarzman, and Tomlinson Hill to Discovery
The much-delayed Kentucky Retirement System cases are finally moving forward, causing heartburn to some top names on Wall Street.
Read more...What ‘The Wire’ Teaches About Institutions
“The Wire” as a worked example on the nature and pace of change. Do you agree?
Read more...How Geopolitics Is Changing Trade
Western measures against Russia and China measures have affected global trade. But what of actual winners and losers?
Read more...Links 5/14/2024
Climate Change Is Affecting Mental Health Literally Everywhere
How climate change exacts a psychological toll, and what if anything to do.
Read more...The US, Israel, and the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Fraud
Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...Where Have All the Babies Gone? Falling Birthrates All Over the World Alarm Leaders, Businessmen, Economists
On the baby bust/falling birthrates freakout.
Read more...Elections and Devaluations
Quelle surprise! Regimes facing elections often goose their economies, leading to currency appreciation pre-vote and devaluations afterwards.
Read more...Links 5/11/2024
‘Unhinged’ Israeli Ambassador Literally Shreds UN Charter Ahead of Successful Vote Urging Security Council to Reconsider Palestine Membership
Israel has yet another childish temper tantrum over the prospect of not getting its way, here over Palestine membership advancing in the UN.
Read more...Nuclear Energy: The New Geopolitical Battleground
The Collective West scrambles to replace Russia as a source of nuclear fuel and services.
Read more...Work Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.
Read more...What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
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