Omicron and vaccine hesitant essential workers are undermining Biden’s vaccine-fixated Covid strategy.
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Vaccine Politics Not Working to Biden Administration Advantage
Topics: Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 143 Comments »
Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26
Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Investment management, Private equity, Social values, Species loss, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:59 am | 10 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/29/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 136 Comments »
Fifty Coral Reefs Selected as ‘Arks’ to Survive Climate Crisis
Australian scientists employ modern portfolio theory to target conservation priorities and generate a list of fifty priority coral reefs.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:25 pm | 7 Comments »
Links 11/29/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 107 Comments »
How Poorer Citizens Pay the Price of Economic Change in the UK
From the speeding up of deindustrialisation and globalisation that began in the early 1980s to the 2008 financial crisis and the decade of austerity that followed, Britain’s economic system has operated with a built-in inequality bias.
Topics: Income disparity, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values, UK
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 21 Comments »
The Campaign to Protect Christmas Profits from Omicron
Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Globalization, Health care, Japan, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:03 am | 137 Comments »
The Geopolitical Game That Could Transform Gas Markets
Will Turkey’s economic straits prime a big multi-country gas deal?
Topics: Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:54 am | 15 Comments »
Ohio Jury Finds Three Pharmacy Chains Liable in Opioids Trial; Judge to Decide on Damages Award in Spring
This is the first opioids jury verdict yet handed down; thousands of opioids cases remain pending.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 22 Comments »
Links 11/28/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 278 Comments »
African Marine Rules Favour Big Industry, Leaving Small-Scale Fishers in the Lurch
European waters are not the only fisheries battleground. In Africa, conflict pits artisanal fishers against industrial forces.
Topics: Africa, Environment, Globalization, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 9 Comments »
Links 11/27/27
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
The NRA Could Be Winning Its Long Gun Game Even as It Appears To Be in Dire Straits
The NRA may have done its job. Gun support may not longer depend on its aggressive lobbying.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:28 am | 76 Comments »
‘We Are Fighting Back’: Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay
Workers around the world held Make Amazon Pay protests to obtain fair wages, end Amazon’s tax avoidance, and lower its impact on the planet
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:41 am | 11 Comments »
Links 11/26/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 102 Comments »




