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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Links 8/30/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 78 Comments »
Extended Vaccination Boosters Against the RBD of Spike Protein and the Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
A carefully done study, admittedly on mice, suggests that more Covid vaccinne boosting is counterproductive in immune repsone terms.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:33 am | 30 Comments »
Imperialism: How the Struggle of Both Classes and Nations Creates Our World
How imperailasm has determined much of the structure of the international economy and that in turn affects domestic interests.
Topics: China, Commodities, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, India, Politics, Russia, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 6 Comments »
Hoisted from Comments: China’s Unsustainable, Unbalanced Growth Model and Its Current Economic Wobbles
Musings on the routes for China out of its economic problems and whether China will actually take them.
Topics: Banking industry, China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Income disparity, Japan, Real estate
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:27 am | 64 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/29/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 110 Comments »
US Weaponizes Environmental Rhetoric to Seek Water Hegemony
An update on jockeying over critical water resources and how the US is positioning itself.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 18 Comments »
Links 8/29/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 172 Comments »
Brazil Mulls Phasing Out Physical Cash, As Central Bank Prepares to Launch CBDC
How did Brazil, a country that until recently was heavily dependent on cash, reach a point where its politicians are now considering eliminating it altogether? One of the answers is a three-letter word that is now ubiquitous across the country: Pix.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:48 am | 14 Comments »
Zelensky’s Latest TV Interview Shows How Much the Ukraine Conflict’s Dynamics Have Shifted
Zelensky has moderated some posiitons as US and EU enthusiasm for Project Ukraine is falling. But don’t get your hopes up for an endgame
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 53 Comments »
Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion
The IMF made a comprehensive tally of fossil fuels subsidies. Both the level and the trajectory are sobering.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:37 am | 18 Comments »
New York Times Bungles Page One School Ventilation Story through Lazy Reporting
Perhaps, after three years and counting of Covid, we should be grateful for any content that isn’t outright eugenicist.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:55 pm | 16 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/28/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 95 Comments »
Links 8/28/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 175 Comments »
Danny Haiphong: Pepe Escobar and Michael Hudson Join on BRICS Plus Six, Ukraine, and the Multipolar World Economy!
Danny Haiphong talks to Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar about hot mulitipolarity topics, particularly BRICS and its “currency” plans
Topics: China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:23 am | 26 Comments »
Technotage on the Rise? More Efforts to Stymie Job-Threatening, Sometimes Hazardous “Innovations”
Ant-technology action, or technotage, seems to be increasing. Is this a trend or just coincidence?
Topics: Banana republic, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Social policy, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:35 am | 19 Comments »