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Sunday, December 28, 2025
‘Their Inflation Strategy Is Working’: Corporate Profits Soared to Record High in 2021
Topics: Corporate governance, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:53 am | 21 Comments »
The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis
You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.
Topics: Banana republic, Credit markets, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:39 am | 9 Comments »
Announcing 2022 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!
2022 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler
Topics: Guest Post, Notices, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 65 Comments »
Arctic Greening Won’t Save the Climate – Here’s Why
Why arctic greening is yet another feel-good idea that does not pan out in practice.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:28 am | 25 Comments »
Links 3/30/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 207 Comments »
Ukraine Updates and More Discussion of the Russia “Gas for Roubles” Countersanction
Gazprom is scheduled to announce what its roubls-for-gas payments stipulations are, even though most Western countries said no, sight unseen.
Topics: Banking industry, Commodities, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 134 Comments »
“Dollar Hegemony Ended Last Wednesday”: Michael Hudson Interviewed by Margaret Flowers on Clearing the Fog
Michael Hudson continues to discuss how Western sanctions are undermining the central role of the dollar in US economic dominance.
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Payment system, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:18 am | 88 Comments »
Under the Sea, a Hidden Climate Variable: Thawing Permafrost
Carefully mapping the changing topology of the Arctic Ocean floor, scientists are racing to study submarine permafrost.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/29/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 129 Comments »
War or Peace, Barbarism or Hope: War Threatens World with Stagflation
A short hisory of stagflation and why it’s a pressing risk now.
Topics: Africa, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment outlook, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 25 Comments »
Links 3/29/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 215 Comments »
US-Mexico Relations Hit New Low Over Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Mexico’s position of neutrality over the Russia-Ukraine conflict provokes backlash from Washington.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:55 am | 37 Comments »
NATO-Russia Proxy War – Revealing Signs of a Fading America: Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson continues his political and financial analysis of the war in Ukraine.
Topics: Banana republic, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 88 Comments »
US Natural Gas Production and LNG Exports Amid Urgent Demand for LNG from Europe
Europe will compete with the biggest buyers of US LNG: South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil. But Mexico bought more than all four combined.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:39 am | 41 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/28/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread !~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 132 Comments »


