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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Links 7/24/18
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 167 Comments »
Reader Coping Strategies for Engaging With Committed Liberals
Reader survival strategies for dealing with dogmatic friends and colleagues.
Topics: Media watch, New McCarthyism, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:31 am | 280 Comments »
America’s Subprime Economy
This so-called expansion is more and more brought to you by subprime borrowings.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit cards, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:08 am | 41 Comments »
Why Is CalSTRS Continuing to Out-Perform CalPERS?
Not surprisingly, CalPERS’ performance leaves much to be desired.
Topics: CalPERS, Investment management
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:32 am | 5 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Realignment and legitimacy, forest fires, killer lawns, Raytheon, the Iowa Farm Board, ticks, and more later.
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 136 Comments »
Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (Status Quo, with a Look at the Winners So Far)
After all the sound and fury, status quo ante
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 12:55 pm | 19 Comments »
Links 7/23/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 275 Comments »
(Mis)Adventures in Portland and a Visit to Occupy ICE
My visit last week to Portland was more exciting, in the good and bad sense, than I expected it to be.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:36 am | 41 Comments »
The Missing Profits of Nations
Profit shifting is a key driver of the decline in global average statutory corporate tax rate, which has fallen by more than half
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Taxes
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:25 am | 15 Comments »
John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism
Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?
Topics: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:15 am | 35 Comments »
Usage Examples of “Our Intelligence Community”, with Implications
Elite language about “the intelligence community,” and what it implies
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 66 Comments »
Links 7/22/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 233 Comments »
A New Way to Think About Solving the World’s Biggest Problems
The Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) will consist of a series of multi-issue global problem-solving policy packages, each of which is to be implemented by all or sufficient nations simultaneously
Topics: Global warming, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:25 am | 90 Comments »
Links 7/21/18
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 237 Comments »
Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA
Tariffs misfire yet again.
Topics: Commodities, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:14 am | 42 Comments »