Category Archives: Guest Post
How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication
Intel is the poster child of how stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation.
Read more...The Real Reason OPEC Talks Broke Down
OPEC is squabbling again. Will the factions settle their hash?
Read more...Buyers’ Strike? Mortgage Applications Drop 8% Below 2019, as Home Buyers Get Second Thoughts about “Raging Mania”
Falling mortgage applications and rising home inventories signal a coming housing market pullback.
Read more...Far More Adults Don’t Want Children Than Previously Thought
Probling why more people arent interested in having children.
Read more...Aducanumab Approval, Part 2: Dirty Drug Dealings
Yves here. We’re doing a bit of catchup by featuring some significant stories that were still crowded out a bit due to the competing news plus the Fourth of July tuneout. One is on the super dodgy approval of the big ticket, very dubious effectiveness Alzheimer’s drug Aducanumab. And “big ticket” is no understatement; the […]
Read more...An Independence Day Reflection: How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning World
How do the rich intend to carry on as general conditions deteriorate?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/6/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over
Varoufakis describes techno-feudalism and speculates on where it is going.
Read more...Links 7/6/2021
A Worrying Trend Emerges in South America, As Right-Wing Populists Take A Leaf Out of Trump and Netanyahu’s Playbook
If the elected leaders of long-established democracies like the US and Israel can question the workings of their electoral system, why can’t others of less-established ones?
Read more...Why Does Israel Confuse Peace with Surrender?
Offensive military strategies and deliberate use of disproportionate violence against civilians are a core part of Israel policies
Read more...The UK Is Running a Dangerous Covid Experiment That Represents a Threat to the Rest of the World
The Covid infection rates in the UK, despite higher vaccination rates than America, are a danger in and of itself and a warning to the US.
Read more...Democrats Prepare to Privatize Medicare, Using Medicare Advantage as Their Opening Wedge (and New York Unions?)
The Democrat plan to privatize Medicare by expanding the private, for-profit Medicare Advantage program
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