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Thursday, July 3, 2025
Links 8/2/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 288 Comments »
How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany
In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed joke is a powerful act of resistance.
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 68 Comments »
Links 8/1/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 284 Comments »
Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:14 am | 65 Comments »
The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:22 am | 15 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020
COVID-19 peak, or plateau? ~ Biden v. Sanders forces at platform committee ~ When you’ve lost Rod Dreher ~ Trump halts ad spend ~ Smugness ~ National security goons and the election ~ Warehousing, shipping for Xmas ~ COVID-19 immunity ~ WHO hires Cass Sunstein ~ Team masks
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 123 Comments »
Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It
NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Surveillance state, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 26 Comments »
Links 7/31/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 172 Comments »
Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update
A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:10 am | 49 Comments »
Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:18 am | 79 Comments »
Kamala Harris or Susan Rice? The Veepstakes Appears To Have Kicked Out Two Truly Terrible Choices
If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn’t unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:40 am | 97 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2020
COVID-19 in the five problem states ~ Biden’s ground game ~ Trump to postpone election or drop out ~ A taxonomy of state failure ~ GDP (ugh), employment situation, rail) ~ Boeing ~ Chinese seeds ~ DIV Covid vaccine ~ “The Stupids Do Covid!:” ~ Grinding games ~ The riots, forgotten ~ Circus Peanut Jello Salad
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 223 Comments »
The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 14 Comments »
Links 7/30/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 182 Comments »
Mayberry v. KKR Plaintiffs File Amended Complaint, Refuting Standing Issues in Recent Kentucky Supreme Court Decision
Another front opens in the landmark public pension case, Mayberry v. KKR
Topics: Hedge funds, Investment management, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 6 Comments »