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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
‘The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Planet’: Review of EPA Power Triggers Alarm
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:25 am | 16 Comments »
Why the US Supply Chain Crisis Is Intractable and Will Get Worse
The US supply chain problem will only get worse in the absence of aggressive Federal action….and we know how likely that is.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:52 am | 160 Comments »
Lebanon: “We’re all going to hell”
A look at the disaster that Lebanon has become and the significance of its fractures and foreign jockeying.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:33 am | 27 Comments »
War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban
NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.
Topics: Credit cards, Curiousities, Income disparity, Legal, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 11:55 am | 71 Comments »
Links 10/31/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 217 Comments »
Inspiration from the 1970s for Today’s Young Environmentalists
Today’s young environmentalists can learn much from the example of the 1970s.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 33 Comments »
Links 10/30/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »
IM Doc on Medication/Medical Supply Shortages and Political Backlash
Key parts of the medical industry in the US are being held together with duct tape and bailng wire. What happens if the stresses get worse?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 202 Comments »
Bob Pollin: Stop Subsidizing Wall St., Start Subsidizing Workers for High Energy Costs
Bob Pollin: High oil prices and supply chain disruption are driving inflation, not workers’ modest wage increases or government debt.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 10 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/29/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 169 Comments »
“Why I Still Believe Covid-19 Could Not Have Originated in a Lab”
Lab escape theories cannot clearly account for a virus that has evolved for human-to-human transmissibility.
Topics: China, Globalization, Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 247 Comments »
Links 10/29/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 123 Comments »
Mexico’s AMLO Blasts IMF for Causing Global Crisis, After Fund Takes Aim At His Energy Policy
“The IMF caused social and economic decadence in the world; they and other international financial organisations are responsible for the global crisis.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:53 am | 12 Comments »
Emergency Room Doctors’ Lobbyist Admits to Large-Scale Medicare Billing Fraud by Members, Criminal Corporate Practice of Medicine by PE Firms
Private equtiy stealing from babies…um, oldsters….um, Medicare. Who’d have thunk it?
Topics: Banana republic, Health care, Legal, Private equity, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:01 am | 14 Comments »
“Democrats Introduce Plan To Fix Social Security, The Way We Fixed the Cat”
Here we go again….another Democrat scheme to gut Social Security.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:28 am | 75 Comments »



