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Saturday, June 28, 2025
What Does a Chatbot Know About Eating Disorders? Users of a Help Line Are About to Find Out
Topics: Technology and innovation, The dismal science
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 10:54 am | 15 Comments »
Links 6/12/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 210 Comments »
The EU Looks to “Jungle” Sacrifice Zones to Help It Out of Energy Crisis: North Africa Edition
Low wages and dirty energy make North Africa an attractive options for the EU to keep the “garden” green and profitable.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 12 Comments »
“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?”
In a new book, George DeMartino offers some novel and pointed criticisms of economics, focusing on societal damage.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 55 Comments »
The War on Terror’s Lingering Pain
The war on terror’s high costs are buried in the US.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Middle East, Moral hazard, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:51 am | 19 Comments »
Links 6/11/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 174 Comments »
The EU Looks to “Jungle” Sacrifice Zones to Help It Out of Energy Crisis
Low wages and dirty energy make the Balkans and North Africa attractive options for the EU to keep the “garden” green and profitable.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Infrastructure, Russia
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 36 Comments »
Did a North Carolina Democratic Lawmaker Throw the Party Under the Bus for the Charter School Industry?
Tricia Cotham’s defection to the Republican Party has deep roots in the right-wing “school choice” movement.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Privatization
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 10 Comments »
Links 6/10/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 247 Comments »
Michael Hudson on the US Economy – Surprisingly Resilient or Potemkin Village?
Michael Hudson covers the waterfront on the US economy, such as class warfare, santions dependency, China, and the dollar.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:51 am | 51 Comments »
I Was a Wilderness Therapy Success Story. Then My PTSD Surfaced.
Wilderness therapy looks like yet another scam designed to extract funds from parents with self-destructive kids.
Topics: Guest Post, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:39 am | 29 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/9/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 78 Comments »
Human-Caused Warming to Surpass Paris Agreement Limit by 2037, Analysis Finds
Another troubling global warming assessment.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 20 Comments »
Links 6/9/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 97 Comments »
Europe’s Strawberry War Heats Up As Germany Sends Cross-Party Delegation to Spain
Strawberry fields forever? Maybe not in water-starved south-eastern Spain.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 15 Comments »