Market dysfunction and class warfare in crowdsourced health care funding
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Monday, June 16, 2025
Hedda Martin’s GoFundMe, Spectrum Health, and Putting a Band-Aid on the Cancer of American’s Health Care System
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 »
The Global Financial Crime Wave Is No Accident
Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Moral hazard, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:32 am | 44 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2018
Water Cooler: Open thread
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 44 Comments »
Taking an Inventory of Senator Bernie Sanders’ Town Halls in 2017 and 2018
How many Town Halls has Sanders done? What were they about? Are there implications for 2020?
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:25 pm | 57 Comments »
Links 11/23/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 243 Comments »
Wolf Richter: 438 Stocks on the NYSE Have Already Plunged 40%-94% from 52-Week Highs
Bloodletting beneath the surface. Big name stocks, too. Here they are.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 am | 23 Comments »
Links Thanksgiving Day 11/22/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 134 Comments »
Sears Bankruptcy Engineered to Benefit Executives and Stiff Workers
Another look at the ugly Sears bankruptcy.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Hedge funds, Income disparity, Legal, Private equity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:39 am | 35 Comments »
Uncertainty and Legal Institutions: The Impact of the Brexit Vote on EU Law Application in the UK
How Brexit is already affecting UK jurisprudence.
Topics: Brexit, Europe, Guest Post, Legal, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:17 am | 7 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 89 Comments »
Why Thanksgiving Is My Favorite Holiday
Thanksgiving is America’s most convivial holiday
Topics: Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:55 pm | 82 Comments »