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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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 »
SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:42 am | 3 Comments »
We Are Fourteen Years Old
Fourteen years old and (hopefully) still making lots of trouble!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:19 am | 93 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2020
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 145 Comments »
Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Science and the scientific method, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 55 Comments »
Links 12/18/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 142 Comments »
Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:26 am | 122 Comments »
Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 27 Comments »
Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:40 am | 18 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/17/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 135 Comments »
Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 59 Comments »
Links 12/17/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 207 Comments »