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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Closing Hours of the 2020 Fundraiser, About to Hit Our New $ and Donor Targets!
Please give in the home stretch to make this fundraiser a smashing success!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:10 pm | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/7/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 135 Comments »
Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 25 Comments »
Links 10/7/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 248 Comments »
Procrastinators of the World, Unite! Last Day, Last Chance for Our Fundraiser!
Don’t miss your last chance to make our 2020 fundraiser the best ever!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 9 Comments »
Trump Shoots His Campaign in the Head
Trump is back to his usual self-destructive form.
Topics: Banking industry, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:10 am | 125 Comments »
Brexit: Running the Clock Down
Why Brexit motion should not be confused with progress.
Topics: Brexit, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Legal, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:09 am | 10 Comments »
Chamber of Commerce Quietly Supports a United Government Led by Democrats
The Chamber of Commerce cozying up to Team Dem is quite a bellweather.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:26 am | 17 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/6/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 223 Comments »
Covid-19 and the Global Addiction to Cheap Migrant Labor
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable labor.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Right to Repair Redux: Massachusetts Ballot Questions
Massachusetts has another right to repair ballot question, updating its 2012 provision that resulted in landmark 2013 legislation.
Topics: Auto industry, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 8:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 10/6/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 269 Comments »
Thomas Frank’s Essential Insight – True Populism Is Transracial: An Interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism
How Jim Crow laws were a backlash against 19th Century populism of having poor whites and blacks join forces to seek economic justice.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 14 Comments »
Daniel Ellsberg on the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism
Daniel Ellsberg, in an interview with Paul Jay, describes the threat the Assange show trial poses for journalists around the world.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:44 am | 11 Comments »