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Saturday, February 7, 2026
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/26/2022
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 117 Comments »
Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will
Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 65 Comments »
Links 10/26/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 206 Comments »
Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class – An Essay-Review in Memory of Barbara Ehrenreich, 1941-2022
A takedown of the pretenses of the professional managerial class.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 82 Comments »
Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture
Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:53 am | 41 Comments »
Energy Loss Is Single Biggest Component of Today’s Electricity System
A comparison of efficiency of electrical sources shows renewables come out markedly ahead.
Topics: Energy markets, Guest Post, Infrastructure
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:32 am | 52 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/25/2022
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 113 Comments »
IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented
The IEA has finally, late in the game, goten the nerve to sound alarms about energy shortages. But nary a word about the role of sanctions
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 27 Comments »
Links 10/25/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 226 Comments »
Colombian President Says the Unspeakable Out Loud: “The US is Ruining Economies Around the World”
Until recently Washington’s closest ally/client state in South America, Colombia is now under new management. And that management has a different perception of US influence in Latin America and the wider world.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 17 Comments »
Wall Street Journal on “U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle” Focuses on Personalities Over End of Unipolar Era
Even though Biden as always is making a bad situation worse, the US-Saudi relationship looks destined to have gone off the rails.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:20 am | 23 Comments »
“The US Signals Readiness to Launch Nuclear Strike Against Russia”
How Russia is reading Western, particularly US, nuke talk.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:40 am | 80 Comments »
CDC, In Yet Another Data Debacle, Fails to Protect You by Butchering Reveal of Covid “Escape” Variant BQ.1*
CDC failed to alert the public to a rapidly doubling and dangerous new variant, BQ.1.* I look at the timeline that shows CDC’s failure to warn, then do a post mortem. Is CDC’s latest betrayal due to malevolence or operational incapacity? Finally, I look at the software CDC depends on, Pangolin.
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Privatization
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:25 pm | 34 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/24/2022
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 58 Comments »
Links 10/24/2022
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 103 Comments »



