DOJ says it’s going to crack down as lawsuits pile up against real estate Goliaths and US officially becomes a “rent-burdened nation.”
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Monday, September 8, 2025
Meatpacking. Healthcare. Housing Rentals. Industries Across the Board Using Tech to Fix Wages and Prices
Topics: ECONNED, Free markets and their discontents, Hedge funds, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Private equity, Real estate, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:50 am | 7 Comments »
Growing Body of Research Suggests Offshore Oil’s Methane Pollution Is Underestimated
Previous efforts to regulate offshore methane emissions stalled, despite role in helicopter crashes.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Global warming
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 2 Comments »
The Obama Presidential ‘Library’
Obama has an edifice complex! Who’d have thunk it?
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:38 am | 37 Comments »
Seymour Hersh: Navy Divers + Spooks + Norway Took Out Nord Stream 2 on Biden’s Orders, Using Timer
Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick Spooks and divers in the Baltic with the C4.
Topics: Banana republic, Europe, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 200 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/8/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 47 Comments »
Links 2/8/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 234 Comments »
Carbon Capture Project Is ‘Band-Aid’ to Greenwash $10 Billion LNG Plant, Locals Say
Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG reassure investors over climate impact.
Topics: Carbon credits, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 am | 8 Comments »
Evidence-Based Medicine for the Modern Age of Artificial Intelligence
Evidence-Based Medicine remains a subfield of Big Pharma marketing and conventional neoliberal economics.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 am | 7 Comments »
Russia’s Budget Deficit Jumps Amid Plunging Oil Revenues
Russia had a budget shortfall due to a fall in energy-related tax receipts. How serious a problem is this development?
Topics: Credit markets, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Russia, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:41 am | 50 Comments »
He’s B-a-a-c-k! Fauci, the Gangster Who Couldn’t Jab Straight Bids for Control of the Next Generation of (Nasal) Vaccines
No.
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 32 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 80 Comments »
Links 2/7/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 177 Comments »
Brazilian President Lula da Silva Locks Horns with Brazil’s Richest Man, Jorge Paulo Lemann
In a rare turn up for the books, the head of state of Latin America’s largest economy just accused three of the country’s four richest men of engaging in blatant accounting fraud.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
Scarring, Hysteresis, and Investment in Europe
Fiscal policy can play an important role in limiting hysteresis – a term coined in the 1980s – particularly by promoting government and private investment. However, the political economy of fiscal policymaking typically trades off long-term benefits for short-term gains
Topics: Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 am | 9 Comments »
The US and the Philippines’ Military Agreement Sends a Warning to China – 5 Key Things to Know
So much for the Biden commitment to XI after a 2 1/2 hour phone call to improve relations…..
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:23 am | 37 Comments »