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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Links 5/26/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 145 Comments »
Joker Geoeconomics and the Fight Over Global Ports
What are China’s options to prevent BlackRock-MSC/US takeover of 43 global ports? And how far will the US go to muscle its way out of its profitability crisis?
Topics: China, Globalization, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Investment banks
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 20 Comments »
Wastewater Plants Could Protect Against PFAS Pollution
Sewage treatment plants have the power to help reduce people’s exposure to PFAS. It’s time they start using it.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 7 Comments »
Links 5/25/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 135 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Incident (1990) Run Time 1H 37M
The Incident is a made for television movie that portrays a small town lawyer’s struggles with his task of defending a German POW.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 11 Comments »
The Left Needs a New Globalization Vision to Counter the Far-Right Surge
An argument that the way out of neoliberal globalization is by developing a new globalization that is democratic and free from the destructive tendencies of capitalist accumulation.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 64 Comments »
Links 5/24/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 173 Comments »
Michael Hudson: The Secret Deal That Started a Global Economic War
Micheal Hudson explains how Trump’s tariffs are yet another device to force countries to accept poilcies that benefit the US.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:22 am | 26 Comments »
Decades On, SSRIs Remain Mired in Mystery and Debate
Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:58 am | 13 Comments »
Coffee Break: A Triumph of Gene Editing
Part the First: Gene Editing as a Cure for Genetic Disease. The recent politics of American science has been depressing in the extreme, and last week I promised to cover recent good things in basic and clinical science. I can’t think of anything better than a baby has been treated successfully for a rare, lethal […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 15 Comments »
Links 5/23/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 159 Comments »
Milei’s Controversial Plan to Turn Argentina into a Money Launderer’s Paradise
“The key is that nobody asks where you got your dollars.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 14 Comments »
Anchored in Troubled Waters: Why European Union and Eurozone Membership Is Less Bad Than You Might Think
An analysis shows how the EU and Eurozone buffer some economic shocks.
Topics: Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:22 am | 19 Comments »
China Is on Its Way to Becoming World’s First ‘Electrostate’
The implications of China leading in the proportion of electricity its energy use and pursuing even more electrification.
Topics: Auto industry, China, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:02 am | 22 Comments »
New SEC Chief on Board with Letting Retail Chumps Invest in Private Equity Even as Pros Like Kuwait Sovereign Wealth Fund Sound Red Alert
The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Hedge funds, Investment management, Private equity, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 15 Comments »