Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
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Friday, October 3, 2025
Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Topics: Banking industry, Environment, Global warming, Market inefficiencies, Real estate, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 22 Comments »
The Villa of Reduced Circumstances is still facing tough times, but the CEO (that is me) and the Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Felines (that is also me when I have to negotiate with the neighborhood cats), are in strong agreement that we can afford to give $5 to Naked Capitalism. Another Anon Aloha […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:51 pm | 3 Comments »
Links 9/21/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 214 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Shooting (1966) Run Time 1H 21M
The Shooting is a movie about desperation and revenge set in the Old West.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 14 Comments »
A Walk Across Alaska’s Arctic Sea Ice Brings to Life the Losses That Appear in Climate Data
A climate scientist gets a firsthand look at the results of the data they’ve been tracking for a decade.
Topics: Global warming
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 1 Comment »
Links 9/20/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 165 Comments »
The Dollar: Ripples Presaging a Financial Tsunami
A detailed analysis of the poor prospects for dollar hegemony and the forces that could trigger a sharp unwind.
Topics: Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 30 Comments »
The Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want to Assimilate
Poland-Ukraine frictions are at odds with some possible end-of-Ukraine-conflict schemes.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:05 am | 22 Comments »
Coffee Break: The Next Surgeon General, Gene Therapy, Ozone Hole Closes, Daylight Saving Time, and American Socialism
Part the First: The Next Surgeon General Prepares for her Closeup. In a surprise to absolutely no one, Casey Means MD discloses financial ties to supplement industry. New financial disclosures from surgeon general nominee Casey Means show that she’s made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements and other health and wellness products, details likely […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 30 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture
How Trump’s policies are destroying key elements of U.S. economic prosperity, with agriculture as a canary in the coal mine.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 42 Comments »
Links 9/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 81 Comments »
US Expands Scope of Its (Fake) War on Drug Cartels to Colombia; Colombia Responds By Threatening to Stop Buying US Weapons
Is this the beginning of another US-sponsored coup?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 17 Comments »
Trump Administration, Jimmy Kimmel, and Media Brownshirting
Like it or not, the FCC had ABC and Disney completely over barrel in the Jimmy Kimmel ouster.
Topics: Banana republic, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:08 am | 69 Comments »
AI Chatbots Need Guardrails to Protect Users’ Mental Health
Chatbots are designed to be addictive and have produced psychotic behavior. But suppliers have yet to implement protective features.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:59 am | 11 Comments »
Israel’s Attack on Qatar Shows What Gulf States Have Yet to Grasp
It’s a cruel irony that Qatar has been bombed twice in the last three months by two sworn enemies, first by Iran and then by Israel. Neither has received kinetic retaliation from the very power supposedly guaranteeing Qatar’s security: the U.S. This signals a shift in the world order that Israel has already understood, but […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 62 Comments »