A detalied history of the two incarnations of Yugoslavia and how the state unraveled.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:10 am | 2 Comments »
Coffee Break: Gavin Newsom Weaponizes ‘Dark Woke’ Cringe Against Trump
California Governor Gavin Newsom is using a cringe-worthy “dark woke” approach to counter President Trump on social media that is getting positive poll results.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 45 Comments »
Links 9/1/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 116 Comments »
Farcical Visions of Competitiveness in the EU
What will stop these maniacs first? A popular revolt putting them in padded cells or Russian strikes?
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Investment outlook, Russia, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 16 Comments »
Book Review: This Is Your Brain On Nature
In “Nature and the Mind,” Marc Berman uses neuroscience to show how interacting with nature benefits mental health.
Topics: Curiousities, Environment, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 26 Comments »
Fed Governor Lisa Cook v. Trump: “That Mortgage Document Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says”
More on the holes in the Trump allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:06 am | 15 Comments »
Links 8/31/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 164 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Necromancy (1972) Run Time: 1H 24M
Necromancy is a movie about a young woman’s encounter with a coven of witches.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 13 Comments »
Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 27 Comments »
Links 8/30/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 177 Comments »
Michael Hudson: How Lenders Sought and Got Power in the Roman Era and Helped Legitimate Later Rentierism
Michael Hudson recaps the long history of limits on lenders’ rights for the benefit of society and how the Roman era was an inflection point
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:38 am | 13 Comments »
Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
Case studies of Armenia, Vietnam and Poland as countries that re-emerged after conquest. What set them apart?
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:35 am | 34 Comments »
Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop
Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 35 Comments »
Links 8/29/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 127 Comments »
Is Washington Trying to Build a “Coalition of the Willing” Against Venezuela?
Second question: does the “supposed” Cartel de los Soles actually exist?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 28 Comments »