Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
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Thursday, July 3, 2025
The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!
Topics: Banana republic, China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, TPP
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:32 am | 40 Comments »
Covid-19 Shortages Continue and Could Get Worse
Covid-19 still stalks the land and winter is coming.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Pandemic, Permaculture
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:14 am | 56 Comments »
Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths: Seeking Economic Roots in Census Data
The higher rate of black deaths to Covid-19 appears due to higher infection rates. That suggests that work and living conditions put them much more at risk.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Hedge funds, Income disparity, Pandemic, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:46 am | 7 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2020
Today’s Water Cooler
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 162 Comments »
America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine
Politicians and the public rest their hopes on emergence of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. Will it work on the obese?
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 87 Comments »
Links 8/10/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 267 Comments »
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Three: Uber’s Already Hopelessly Unprofitable Economics Take A Major Coronavirus Hit
The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation, Uber
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 30 Comments »
CalPERS Digs Its Ben Meng Defenestration Hole Deeper: Claims Knowledge of Abuse Months Ago; Notice for Emergency Closed Session Legally Invalid Unless CEO Frost’s Job Is on the Line
CalPERS is bizarrely unable to control its bad impulses.
Topics: Banana republic, CalPERS, Investment management, Legal, Politics, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:25 pm | 24 Comments »
COVID-19 Survivors Face Lifetime of Disability
Funny how other countries are willing to acknowledge that Covid-19 can do very bad things without killing you, and not the US.
Topics: Australia, Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:20 pm | 27 Comments »
Links 8/9/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 320 Comments »
COVID-19 and the California Prison Crisis: 24th San Quentin Inmate Dies Last Friday
The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Legal, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 33 Comments »
Wind Farms Built on Carbon-Rich Peat Bogs Lose Their Ability to Fight Climate Change
Wind farms provide sustainable energy but must be properly sited, so not to destroy the carbon sink characteristsics of peat bogs.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 4:55 am | 37 Comments »
Links 8/8/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 322 Comments »
Larry Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane
Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that China and the U.S. must work together on the climate crisis, but the militaries and security states on both sides make that impossible.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:29 am | 73 Comments »
Why Capitalism Is in Constant Conflict With Democracy
A high level, if flawed, critique of democracy American style.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:52 am | 31 Comments »