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Thursday, July 10, 2025
Links 3/2/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 135 Comments »
Ukraine, Russia, China, and Dealing With Crazy People
What passes for leadership in the West is becoming more agitated, particulalry over Ukraine.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 95 Comments »
Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:53 am | 34 Comments »
Identifying the Real Resistance
Can the rich be trusted to fix a breaking world? Or should the real resistance unite beneath one banner?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:53 am | 46 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/1/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 83 Comments »
Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization
Cisco turned from innovation to financialization, weakening the position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
Topics: China, Corporate governance, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment management, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 45 Comments »
Links 3/1/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 183 Comments »
The Crisis in Scientific Publication: Peer Review, Authorship, Responsibility, and the Future of Science
Science is rotting thanks to bad metrics and bad publisher incentives.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:22 am | 35 Comments »
How Private Equity Bribes Public Pension Fund Officials: Subsidized/Fund-Paid Lavish Travel and Entertainment
Yet more private equity corruption! And see how little it costs to buy the assent of public pension fund employees.
Topics: Banana republic, CalPERS, Investment management, Politics, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:52 am | 10 Comments »
Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing
Why handwringing about population decline is the wrong reaction.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Social policy, Social values, Species loss
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:51 am | 32 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 110 Comments »
All Presidents Avoid Reporters, but Biden May Achieve a Record in His Press Avoidance
An effort to rationalize Presidential and by extension other politicians’ minimizing interaction with the press.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 21 Comments »
Links 2/28/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 161 Comments »
UK Citizens Should Take Rishi Sunak’s Pledge Not to Launch Digital ID With a Truckload of Salt
“There are no plans to introduce digital ID. Our position on physical ID cards remains unchanged.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 17 Comments »
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on Dollar Imperialism
A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.
Topics: Banking industry, China, Commodities, Currencies, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Macroeconomic policy, Payment system, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 35 Comments »