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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 34 Comments »
Links 11/9/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 210 Comments »
The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:39 am | 57 Comments »
Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:05 am | 17 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China and Shutterstock, Nevada polling, Biden, Bloomberg, Clinton, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, impeachment “coup,” trolling, consumer sentiment, wholesale trade, Uber, Amazon, recession fears receding, global production ecosystem, wine county fires, human diversity, MIT robots
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 192 Comments »
The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars
Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Topics: Auto industry, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 108 Comments »
Links 11/8/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 163 Comments »
Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result
The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.
Topics: Media watch, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:10 am | 146 Comments »
‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008
CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment outlook
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:54 am | 22 Comments »
Ilargi: Energy vs Waste
Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.
Topics: Auto industry, Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:17 am | 50 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/7/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: US/China to reverse tariffs in “phases,” theories of change, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Weld, employment, impeachment for “quid pro quo” to extortion/bribery, CA methane super-emitters, rivers in Tibet, Russia, Mexico, grotesque college admissions scandal
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 194 Comments »
The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
A review of major institutional and political developments that created modern Europe.
Topics: Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 11/7/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 184 Comments »
How Misleading Economic Analysis Is Corrupting Our Democracy
Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:41 am | 17 Comments »
Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:56 am | 15 Comments »