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Monday, November 3, 2025
Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:07 am | 12 Comments »
Links 10/3/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 265 Comments »
How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts
Some past pandemics ushered in massive changes….but only with massive death levels. So can the powers that be rest easy with Covid?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:36 am | 41 Comments »
“Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump”
An illustration that some and perhaps many Trump voters don’t fit mainstream media stereotypes.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:11 am | 212 Comments »
“I Need My Nake!”
Naked Capitalism is Arizona Slim’s antidote to MSM-induced brain damage.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:26 pm | 7 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/2/2020
New keyboard, new attitude! Well, maybe not a new attitude…
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 141 Comments »
As of September 29, 2020, 5 Federal Courts Have Ruled Against the Postal Service
The Postal Service is getting whacked for service degradation that critics believe has a lot to do with upcoming voting by mail.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 17 Comments »
Links 10/2/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 288 Comments »
How Corruption is Becoming America’s Operating System
A new book by Sarah Chayes shows the US descent into a level of corruption usually associated with places like Nigeria and Afghanistan
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:23 am | 72 Comments »
Brexit: Confrontation
The Brexit process is as ugly as ever.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Legal, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 59 Comments »
San Francisco Rents in Free-Fall. New York Rents Swoon. Expensive Cities, College Towns, Cities in Texas, Other States Sag. But in 16 Cities, Rents Jump Double-Digits
Tracking the damage in big city residential rents.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Pandemic, Real estate
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:34 am | 16 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/1/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 260 Comments »
Naked Capitalism: Countering the Spin of the Mainstream Media
My annual thank you to the Naked Capitalim community for improving my writing, and to ask you to contribute so we can counter MSM spin.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:30 pm | 5 Comments »
WATCH: Katie Porter, Squad Members Eviscerate Big Pharma CEOs Over ‘Exorbitant’ Drug Prices
ngresscritters go after drug price gouging. But what will it take to make it stop?
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 26 Comments »
Links 10/1/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 181 Comments »



