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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Links 12/22/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 227 Comments »
Who Loses Out From Covid-Induced Changes in Buying Patterns?
Why for some sectors of the economy, life after Covid may never be the same.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Pandemic, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:32 am | 30 Comments »
UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:37 am | 44 Comments »
A Tale of Two Elections: U.S. and Bolivia
US sanctimoniousness about the importance of elections respecting popular will does not apply outside our borders.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:45 am | 12 Comments »
A Document Maven Looks at the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
How editorial practices at the NEJM lead doctors astray.
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 pm | 62 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/21/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 136 Comments »
Controversial ‘Spy Tech’ Firm Palantir Lands £23m NHS Data Deal
Exclusive: UK government sneaks through new NHS COVID data contract, despite legal challenges.
Topics: Health care, Politics, Privatization, UK
Posted by Lambert Strether at 11:49 am | 4 Comments »
Links 12/21/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 240 Comments »
Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Legal, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:34 am | 67 Comments »
Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:29 am | 9 Comments »
New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, India
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 pm | 12 Comments »
Links 12/20/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 351 Comments »
Wolf Richter: Who Holds the $1.65 Trillion of Apartment Building Debt amid Eviction Bans and Plunging Occupancy Rates at High Rises?
How much apartment building debt is there, and who holds it?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Moral hazard, Real estate
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 29 Comments »
Links 12/19/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 270 Comments »
How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Topics: China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:19 am | 71 Comments »