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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/24/2021
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 97 Comments »
Democrats Continue to Prop Up High Cost Medical System by Buying Health Insurance
Pouring more money into America’s inefficient and badly performing medical system.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 55 Comments »
Links 3/24/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 125 Comments »
Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 85 Comments »
Medea Benjamin: 10 Things Wrong With Biden’s Foreign Policy
Medea Benjamin explains why the Biden administration seems firmly entrenched behind Trump’s walls of hostility.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 14 Comments »
Postal Service Saboteur Louis DeJoy Is Making Biden And Congress Look Impotent – Or Worse
Louis DeJoy deserves a special place in hell…although a permanent MOF audit might be an adequate punishment.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Privatization, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:32 am | 43 Comments »
Why Can’t the IRS Just Send Americans a Refund – or a Bill?
Believe it or not, it’s not the fault of the IRS that tax return prep is such a hassle.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 8:58 pm | 17 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/23/2021
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 114 Comments »
Links 3/23/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 181 Comments »
The Ultimate Grenfell Betrayal: UK Government Leaves Victims of Cladding Crisis Holding the Bill
The costs fall on leaseholders, who are least able to pay and not remotely to blame for the crisis, while the government protects builders, developers and cladding manufacturers.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:41 am | 12 Comments »
End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
More on the vaccine atrocities perpetrated by Big Pharma, aided and abetted by first world countries.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 16 Comments »
Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:06 am | 40 Comments »
How the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Played His Readers for Chumps on Outdoor Dining and Aerosols — Including Me
The New Yorker anatomizes outdoor dining, without telling readers how to dine safely.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 pm | 43 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2021
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 164 Comments »
The Ancient Roots of “Doing Nothing”: Is Idleness a Form Of Resistance — Or Just an Indulgence for the Lucky Few?
The ethics of idleness.
Topics: Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 12:06 pm | 64 Comments »