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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Links 7/29/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 170 Comments »
Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers
Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:20 am | 73 Comments »
Grassroots Fight for $15 Movement Has Won $150 Billion in Raises for Millions of Workers, Study Shows
The campaign to raise the hourly wage to $15 has been racking up successes, even if the press doesn’t much take notice.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:19 am | 13 Comments »
The Infinite Loop of Empty Direct-to-Consumer Branding
Taking note of a weirdly hollow millenial-focused consumer brand type.
Topics: Curiousities, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:57 am | 7 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/28/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 185 Comments »
Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Social policy, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 12 Comments »
Links 7/28/21
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 100 Comments »
CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:02 am | 145 Comments »
Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:51 am | 17 Comments »
Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:07 am | 61 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 164 Comments »
U.S. Vaccine Diplomat Cajoles Producers to Support Low-Cost Off-Shore Vaccine Hubs
The Biden administration should push the WTO to waive COVID vaccine patents before heading off for vacation and encourage U.S. producers to ramp up low-cost vaccine production worldwide.
Topics: Banana republic, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 11:55 am | 2 Comments »
Links 7/27/21
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 177 Comments »
Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Risk and risk management, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:14 am | 33 Comments »
Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:56 am | 59 Comments »



