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Monday, December 1, 2025
Links 12/1/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 14 Comments »
MAGA Antitrust Is Officially Dead: DOJ Sanctions Price Fixing With Slap on the Wrist Settlement Against Rental Housing Collusion Kingpin RealPage
Private-equity-owned RealPage can still lead national rental housing cartel as it moves to access renters’ financial data and embraces AI decision-making. The company is also suing New York state for violating its speech by attempting to stop its illegal behavior.
Topics: Legal, Private equity, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | No Comments »
Why Do We Still Have Poverty?
Richard Murphy explains how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty — using fear and insecurity to keep wages low, rents high, and wealth flowing up to the richest.
Topics: Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Private equity, Privatization, Social policy, Social values, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 5 Comments »
Protestor Confrontation with ICE in New York City Appears to Have Stymied Raid; Is There Any Hope for ICE Opposition?
As ICE protests continue, are they succeeding in throwing sand in the gears of the deportation machine?
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:24 am | 1 Comment »
Links 11/30/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 113 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Import/Export (2007) Run Time 2H 21M
Import/Export is an Austrian film about poverty and power.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 11 Comments »
US “R” Us or Tax Sovereignty?
Countries can either capitulate to President Trump’s tax bullying or come together to fight for the sovereign right to tax multinationals fairly.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Social policy, Social values, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 3 Comments »
Links 11/29/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 133 Comments »
The UK Is Cursed: How Finance Destroyed Our Economy
More discussion of how the UK’s post World War II decline was a choice, due in large measure to the embrace of finance and neoliberalism.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Commodities, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 42 Comments »
As US Hunger Rises, Trump Administration’s ‘Efficiency’ Goals Cause Massive Food Waste
Feature or bug? 1890s-loving Trump’s policies increase food waste, hurting citizens, farmers, and agriculture processors.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:06 am | 7 Comments »
Coffee Break: Science and Belief, Working AI, ADHD Update, and Research Support
Part the First: When Science Becomes a Matter of Belief Things Go Sideways. The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is getting his way. This is not a surprise. The President hired him to “go wild on health” and he is doing just that. Some have complained that as Secretary of HHS that RFKJr […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 13 Comments »
Links 11/28/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 111 Comments »
The Trump Administration Is Now Directly Intervening in Honduras’ Presidential Elections, Confirming a Region-Wide Trend
Honduras may be a relatively small country but there is a huge amount riding on this Sunday’s election result — not just regionally but perhaps even globally.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 6 Comments »
How to Stop a Nuclear War — and Why We’re Not Talking About It
The risk of nuclear war is higher than ever due to the Cold War never having ended while many leaders are insensitive to the consequences.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:14 am | 24 Comments »
Thomas Hobbes and His Political Philosophy
The historical, philosophical, and social foundations of Thomas Hobbes’ political thought.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:17 am | 23 Comments »




