The German embassy also joined the pile-on, with slapstick consequences.
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Friday, July 4, 2025
Cold War 2.0 in Mexico: US and Russian Embassies Lock Horns Over International Study Programs
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 11 Comments »
How Trump 2.0 Could Herald a New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism
To discuss: “Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet.”
Topics: Banana republic, China, Commodities, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:24 am | 31 Comments »
Trump Shreds Emoluments Clause with New Memecoin while Norms Fairy Weeps (and Melania Joins the Fun)
Even tech bros are aghast.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 pm | 92 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/20/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Democrats take their farewells; DOGE commissars; A web beyond the platforms ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 109 Comments »
Links 1/20/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
The Next Unwind of Social Guarantees: Home and Medical Insurance
A Wall Street Journal column suggests that elite conventional wisdom favors more gutting of medical and home insurance as unduly “socialized”
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Health care, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 58 Comments »
There’s No Growth, so What Should Labour Do?
Labour’s dilemma — which has parallels in other countries — leads to vague aspirations that are almost meaningless, and probably undeliverable. So, what should it do?
Topics: Brexit, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Social values, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 40 Comments »
For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village — And a Lot of Luck
Another indictment of America’s claims of superiority: a coming tsunami of homeless elderly
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:52 am | 18 Comments »
Los Angeles Fires: A Guide for Making Sure Your Home Insurer Pays What It Owes
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Legal, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:08 am | 2 Comments »
Links 1/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 156 Comments »
What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like?
The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Private equity, Privatization, Russia, Social policy
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 83 Comments »
David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture
Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.
Topics: Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 34 Comments »
Links 1/18/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 168 Comments »
Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex?
On Biden’s self-serving and lame warning about the evils of the tech-industrial complex, which to him amounts to social media disinformation.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:47 am | 40 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada
Michael Hudson on the method in Trump’s seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:10 am | 50 Comments »