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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Godzilla vs. Kong: A Functional Morphologist Uses Science to Pick a Winner
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 »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/29/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 55 Comments »
Ponzis Go Boom!!!
The SPAC market is in the process of detonating and it will take the Ponzi Sector with it.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Investment outlook, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 11:58 am | 8 Comments »
Links 3/29/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 183 Comments »
Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 55 Comments »
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Social policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:51 am | 6 Comments »
Where the Beltway Mainstream Thinks Obama’s Performance Could Have Been Improved
Mainstream critiques of Obama show Biden’s degrees of freedom.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 64 Comments »
Links 3/28/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 177 Comments »
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
While every U.S. county has seen hunger rates rise, the steepest jumps have been in some of the wealthiest counties, where overall affluence obscures the tenuous finances of low-wage workers.
Topics: Pandemic, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 31 Comments »
Links 3/27/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 147 Comments »