Yanis Varioufakis discusses the emerging shape of postcapitalism.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:20 am | 150 Comments »
Earl Katz: Regenerative Agriculture and Massive Planting of Trees is Our Only Hope
Earl Katz, an early climate change warrior, looks at the dwindling number of options humans have for alleviating global warming.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:02 am | 44 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 246 Comments »
How the Agricultural Lobby Is Sabotaging Europe’s Green Deal
The European Commission’s ambitous Green Deal plans are already stumbling over bureaucratic infighting and ag industry opposition.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Global warming, Guest Post, Permaculture, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 13 Comments »
Links 8/21/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 227 Comments »
Looting, American Style: CEOs Get Big Pre-Bankruptcy Bonuses Even When Lenders and Employees Stiffed
Failed CEOs succeed in looting their companies on the verge of bankruptcy filings.
Topics: Banana republic, Corporate governance, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Investment management, Legal, Pandemic, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:43 am | 20 Comments »
Saudi Arabia Refuses To Learn From Its Two Failed Oil Price Wars
The oil situation has developed not necessarily to Saudi Arabia’s advantage, but MbS appears not to have gotten the memo.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:32 am | 10 Comments »
Global Warming Is Accelerating. (In Other News, Democrats Reverse Platform, Won’t End Fossil Fuel Subsidies)
The Democrats busy themselves with a self-love fest as they ignore more and more dire evidence of the progress of global warming.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:31 am | 55 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2020
~ The adults in the room at the Democratic National Convention ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 225 Comments »
Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick
More evidence in support of masks.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 75 Comments »
Links 8/20/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 301 Comments »
Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part II – The Strategy
Where you wind up when you take libertarian ideas to their logical conclusion…..
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social values, Summer rerun
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 32 Comments »
How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
How consolidation in dairy processing has led to overproduction of milk and dumping.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:58 am | 10 Comments »
Apollo’s Leon Black, Found in Serial Child Rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book, Patronized Strip Club in Russia With Trump
Apollo’s Leon Black needs to develop better taste in friends.
Topics: CalPERS, Investment banks, Private equity, Real estate, Russia, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:54 am | 44 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/19/2020
~ Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 265 Comments »