The Prigozhin rebellion is looking to be not that much more than a one day wonder.
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Sunday, January 18, 2026
From Pugachev To Lebed – The Muzhik Rebellion Fizzles Out Without Bloodshed, Prigozhin to Exile
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:44 pm | 73 Comments »
Links 6/24/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 195 Comments »
Fog of Prigozhin: His Bizarre and Surely Doomed Military Revolt
Prigozhin has really completely lost it. But is his revolt as big a threat as the Western press seems to believe?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 189 Comments »
A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change
Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?
Topics: Africa, Banana republic, Banking industry, Credit markets, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:03 am | 6 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/23/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 101 Comments »
Why Interest Rate Rises Are Fueling Inflation
Is central bank inflatin medicine even worse than it seems?
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 42 Comments »
Is A New Housing Crisis Brewing in Spain?
Spain is one of the European economies that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 virus crisis. Now, after years of falling real incomes, millions of families are facing skyrocketing mortgage payments as a result of rapidly rising interest rates.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:55 am | 15 Comments »
Links 6/23/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 206 Comments »
Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them
Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:39 am | 12 Comments »
ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”
Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Private equity, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:42 am | 9 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/22/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 100 Comments »
Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 24 Comments »
Links 6/22/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 182 Comments »
Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings
Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 27 Comments »
Thus We Fall: June Temperature Spike Confirms Dire Climate Change Forecasts
The trajectory of climate change is starting to look worse.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:53 am | 60 Comments »



