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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Links 4/16/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 165 Comments »
Mourning Notre Dame
A few sad words about the loss of Notre Dame.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:00 am | 126 Comments »
How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
Topics: Environment, Guest Post, Permaculture, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:06 am | 8 Comments »
Sanders Takes the Campaign Against CAP to Eleven
Sanders takes off his gloves.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:36 am | 59 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/15/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and brokered convention, Buttigieg and South Bend, Booker’s crowds, Harris’s book, Sanders vs. Neera Tanden cage match, Trump could win, Yang, voting machines, manufacturing, Panasonic, Uber, Amazon, Tesla, Japan Display, average warming, cursive handwriting
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 217 Comments »
Framing “Climate Change”: Denialism vs. Exterminism
A proposal for a revised terminology climate change opponents.
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:55 pm | 51 Comments »
Links 4/15/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nineteen: Uber’s IPO Prospectus Overstates Its 2018 Profit Improvement by $5 Billion
Uber’s financial data in its S-1 filing is misleading and even inconsistent.
Topics: Auto industry, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:36 am | 37 Comments »
EU Plastics Ban: “Doesn’t Go Far Enough”
Jerry-Lynn on TRNN!
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Species loss
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:34 am | 2 Comments »
Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:31 am | 23 Comments »
Need Help With Venue for May 1 Milwaukee Meetup
Trying to sort out details for our upcoming Milwaukee meetup.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:29 pm | 3 Comments »
CalPERS Wastes Fund Assets on a Sham Investigation to Intimidate Board Members
CalPERS resorts to a “garbage in, garbage out” investigation to try to bully board members who have the temerity to ask questions and talk to the press.
Topics: Banana republic, Corporate governance, Investment management, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:37 am | 19 Comments »
Links 4/14/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 152 Comments »
How Britain Unified Germany: Endogenous Trade costs and the Formation of a Customs Union
British policy led to the formation of Europe’s first customs union (the Zollverein) and prepared the political unification of Germany.
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 4 Comments »
Leaving NYC
Your humble blogger plans to leave NYC.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:05 am | 168 Comments »