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Sunday, September 14, 2025
Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing
Topics: China, Commodities, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:34 am | 26 Comments »
Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.
Topics: Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:04 am | 3 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/31/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 91 Comments »
Getting a Prescription to Die Remains Tricky Even as Aid-in-Dying Bills Gain Momentum
Right to die laws are scarce in the US, and too often a muddle where they
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 16 Comments »
Links 3/31/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 93 Comments »
A Covid Tragedy: “Wholesale Discrediting of Our Health Science Institutions”
How science, or perhaps more accurately, “Trust the science,” is dangerously being treated as just another political chip.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 115 Comments »
Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.
Topics: Corporate governance, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:37 am | 10 Comments »
Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?
Biden”s Central America plan includes US funding of domestic security forces to keep citizens put and support foreign economic exploitation.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:09 am | 15 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/30/2021
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 103 Comments »
Godzilla vs. Kong: A Functional Morphologist Uses Science to Pick a Winner
Godzilla lives!
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 41 Comments »
Links 3/30/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 102 Comments »
It’s Time To Talk About Ivermectin
An extremely cheap, safe and widely available off-patent medicine appears to be saving the lives of covid-19 patients across Latin America and beyond. Yet hardly anybody’s talking about it.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:15 am | 194 Comments »
We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History
Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Derivatives, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:20 am | 25 Comments »
Philanthrocapitalists: The Pied Pipers of ‘Modern Slavery’?
Hundreds of millions of dollars for anti-trafficking/slavery sidesteps how rich countries exploit labour in poor nations.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:30 am | 9 Comments »
Is Dr. Fauci Trying to Steal the Credit for All the Vaccines Delivered by Operation Warp Speed?
Cutting the Fauci propaganda effort down to size.
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 pm | 47 Comments »