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Saturday, December 20, 2025
Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on the Covid Booster
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | 71 Comments »
Links 8/16/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 200 Comments »
Is Western U.S. Experiencing a ‘Megadrought’?
The U.S. West may be in a climate-fueled megadrought, but willingness to admit that, let alone address it, is awfully slow in coming.
Topics: Australia, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:48 am | 60 Comments »
A Half Century Since The Beginning Of The End Of The Post WW II Economic Order
Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods economic system.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:24 am | 32 Comments »
Don’t Plant Trees, Grow Forests!
Forests are far superior to tree plantations at carbon removal. Unfortunately, the world is planning for tree plantations.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Garrulous insolence, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 pm | 39 Comments »
Links 8/15/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 279 Comments »
Why Economists Don’t Write More Papers on Political Finance
Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of interests that may exist in economics research.
Topics: Guest Post, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:45 am | 27 Comments »
Links 8/14/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 404 Comments »
Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests
Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Carbon credits, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:49 am | 5 Comments »
Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:14 am | 28 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 158 Comments »
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China
Lawrence Wilkerson looks at the overly-casual talk in the US about nuclear war with China and does not like what he sees.
Topics: Banana republic, China, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 47 Comments »
Links 8/13/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 208 Comments »
Close to 50% of US Workers Can’t Afford to Rent One Bedroom Housing
An update on the already desperate and worsening state of the market for renters in the US.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:20 am | 92 Comments »
How a National Infrastructure Program Would Protect Americans From Hurricanes
Biden’s infrastructure plan includes defending flood and hurricane vulnerable areas, when saving all of them may not be the right answer.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:52 am | 5 Comments »




