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Friday, December 19, 2025
The Outdoors Is, Indeed, Great
Topics: Guest Post, Permaculture
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:25 pm | 45 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/19/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 200 Comments »
Links 7/19/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 146 Comments »
How Monopoly Was Invented to Demonstrate the Evils of Capitalism
Monopoly iencourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those its inventor intended to champion.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Real estate, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 26 Comments »
The Intergenerational Mortality Trade-Off of Covid-19 Lockdown Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Under certain circumstances, lockdowns could actually increase overall (COVID-19 plus non-COVID-19) mortality for the lowest-income countries.
Topics: Globalization, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 4 Comments »
Pacific Salmon and Heat, along with Beavers, Bears — and Nitrogen
Beavers and bears as ecosytem engineers. But can salmon be saved?
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 pm | 41 Comments »
Links 7/18/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 245 Comments »
Asset Strippers Are Preparing to Feast on Britain’s Covid-Ravaged Economy
Armed with record piles of cash, private equity firms are scouring the globe for vulnerable prey. British companies, such as Morrisons, are top of their list
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Pandemic, UK
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 51 Comments »
Links 7/17/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 336 Comments »
Haiti Ruling Families Create and Kill Monsters
How Haiti is a fiefdom for gangs and foreigners pilfering the country’s natural resources.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:45 am | 22 Comments »
The U.S. Shale Revolution Has Surrendered to Reality
The funding for shale production in the US has dried up as moneybags finally realize that there’s no profit to be had.
Topics: Credit markets, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:00 am | 20 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/16/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 136 Comments »
Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home
The trauma center ripoff provides more evidence that the medical industry is primarily in the business of exploitation, not care.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 36 Comments »
Links 7/16/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 171 Comments »
Vaccine Certificates Are Making Global Travel Harder, Not Easier
Vaccine certificates were ostensibly rolled out to help facilitate cross-border travel as vaccination numbers increased. But thanks to vaccine geopolitics, the opposite is happening
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, India, Pandemic
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:31 am | 37 Comments »




