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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Links 11/27/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 231 Comments »
Overshadowed By Opioids, Meth Is Back And Hospitalizations Surge
An update on the meth epidemic.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:10 am | 49 Comments »
You May Not Actually Own Your Bitcoin: Legal Expert
Yet another reason to be leery of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Topics: Currencies, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Payment system, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:40 am | 34 Comments »
White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report
Yet more official climate change denialism…
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:14 am | 36 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/26/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Tesla in China, aluminum, Sanders 2020, Beto 2020, Trump 2020, HAVA, legitimacy, national activity index, manufacturing, the environment, “Pistachio Wars”, white privilege, burgers
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 82 Comments »
Post Office Privatization Thrust Awaits (Stalled) Publication of Trump Task Force Report
The Post Office, its Universal Service Obligation, privatization efforts, how (and possibly why) those efforts are stalled.
Topics: Guest Post, Infrastructure, Private equity, Privatization
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:55 pm | 39 Comments »
Leftist “Useful Idiots” Continue Their War on Wages via Mass Immigration (Australia)
“Fake left” plays directly into the hands of the capitalist elites that they supposedly oppose.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 10:45 am | 156 Comments »
Links 11/26/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
Brexit: More Thrashing About
Expect Brexit craziness to get even worse.
Topics: Brexit, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:26 am | 45 Comments »
As Zuckerberg Refuses to Testify, UK Seizes Thousands of ‘Potentially Explosive’ Documents Facebook Has Tried to Keep Secret
The costs of Mark Zuckerberg’s hubris keep rising.
Topics: Corporate governance, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:11 am | 30 Comments »
Hedda Martin’s GoFundMe, Spectrum Health, and Putting a Band-Aid on the Cancer of American’s Health Care System
Market dysfunction and class warfare in crowdsourced health care funding
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:55 pm | 55 Comments »
Links 11/25/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 265 Comments »
‘We Are Not Robots’: Amazon Workers Walk out on Black Friday over Low Wages and ‘Inhuman Conditions’
The Amazon strikes in Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Topics: Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 am | 47 Comments »
Links 11/24/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 196 Comments »
Dirty Work: Buying Votes at the UN Security Council
Quelle surprise: pay to play in Security Council votes.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:50 am | 7 Comments »