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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:44 am | 12 Comments »
What Connects Grenfell Tower, Dams on the Mekong, and a Shortage of Glass Vials for Covid Vaccines? Sand!
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, […]
Topics: Commodities, Environment, Globalization, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 pm | 25 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 181 Comments »
How to Move Beyond Utopian Socialism and Libertarianism
It is vital to escape the standard binary debates of state versus market or public versus private ownership.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 12:15 pm | 47 Comments »
Links 11/23/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 260 Comments »
Michael Olenick: How Biden Could Tackle the Student Loan Crisis
Biden could resort to a simple bankruptcy fix for the student loan mess. But would he?
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Student loans
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:19 am | 66 Comments »
The Mnuchin-Powell Affair Over the Fed’s “Special Purpose Vehicles” in Dollars & Effects
The Treasury and Fed set up junk-buying SPV programs The unwind is oddly controversial given that they never should have been created.
Topics: Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment management, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:50 am | 17 Comments »
College Presidents Fail to Mobilize to Protect Students from Covid-19
A missed opportunity in the universities
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 22 Comments »
Links 11/22/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 391 Comments »
Regulating Fintech in Europe: Lessons from the Collapse of Wirecard
Since Fintech companies can be very complex, their oversight requires understanding their business model and combining regulation and supervision based on both entities and activities.
Topics: Banking industry, Europe, Guest Post, Payment system, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:50 am | 10 Comments »
Links 11/21/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 166 Comments »
Reply from Authors of “To Save the Economy, Save People First” Regarding “Lockdowns Work”
More on lockdowns as a core response to community spread of Covid-19.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Health care, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:21 am | 142 Comments »
Don’t Depend on Wall Street for Renewable Energy Investment
Why Big Finance is part of the energy problem, not the solution.
Topics: Credit markets, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:19 am | 16 Comments »
The Impact of the New Asian Trade Mega-Deal on the European Union
Even though the econnomic impact ot the new Asian trade pact seems limited, Europeans see it as a geopolitical Big Deal.
Topics: China, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:00 am | 14 Comments »
Insurance Companies Flag “Driver Disengagement” as Factor in Robot Car Safety
The irony of automation….
Topics: Auto industry, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 pm | 24 Comments »