Is Fox responsible for America’s low vaccination rate?
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Sunday, December 28, 2025
The Impact of Fox News on the US COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:24 am | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/14/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 80 Comments »
Ukraine Is Smashed – This Is How It Will Be Repaired
A look at a plausible Ukraine endgame.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 95 Comments »
Links 4/14/2022
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 195 Comments »
Twitter Re-Ban of Scott Ritter, Kafkaesque Support of Impersonator, Is All About Anti-Russia Propaganda
If you doubt that freedom of expression is dead in America, look no futher than Twitter’s shabby, policy-breaking treatment of Scot Ritter
Topics: Media watch, New McCarthyism, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 132 Comments »
Financial Times Screeches at China’s “Propaganda” for Sticking to Zero Covid Policy
A new article on how China is sticking to its zero Covid guns is revealing, and not in a good way.
Topics: Banana republic, China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:03 am | 44 Comments »
Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to rein in Big Tech. But that won’t do much to protect user privacy.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:27 am | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/13/2022
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Hawaiian Bird Week at Naked Capitalism continues. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord “When the going gets weird, […]
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 101 Comments »
Overheating Conditions Indicate High Probability of a US Recession
Larry Summers tells us a recession is coming….sometime….because the US is having too good a time job-wise.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 42 Comments »
Links 4/13/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 193 Comments »
Healthcare Expert Greg Travis Speaks About the Official Disappearing of COVID-19 Pandemic
Healthcare and technology expert Greg Travis gives a detailed account of how the officialdom has lied about Covid in the interest of profit.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Moral hazard, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:52 am | 33 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: Cloudalists: Our New Cloud-Based Ruling Class
Capitalism is on the wane. Cloudalists, owners of a new form of “command capital,” have gained exorbitant power over everyone else.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:08 am | 40 Comments »
Thawing Permafrost Is Roiling the Arctic Landscape, Driven by a Hidden World of Changes Beneath the Surface as the Climate Warms
Not only is permafrost releasing methane, but when it melts, it removes a key support, leading to collapsing soil and loss of lake drainage.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:36 am | 18 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 154 Comments »
The Amazon Labor Union’s Fight With Amazon Is Far From Over
Amazon is challenging NLRB certification, while a vote at a nearby warehouse looms. So when will Amazon sit down to discuss a contract?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 14 Comments »


