Monthly Archives: August 2023

August 31, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/31/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Other Option for Containing Trump
  by Yves Smith 11:16 am

• Links 8/31/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• BRICS: African Countries Face Opportunities and Risks in Alienating China or the US – An Expert Weighs In
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Labor Economist: AI May Bring a Boom in Horrible Jobs
  by Yves Smith 6:43 am

• US-China Decoupling: Rhetoric and Reality
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

August 30, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/30/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Biden Administration Migrant-Friendly Southern Border Policy Creating Splits Among Democrats; NYC About to Eject 4,500 from Shelters
  by Yves Smith 11:33 am

• Links 8/30/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Extended Vaccination Boosters Against the RBD of Spike Protein and the Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• Imperialism: How the Struggle of Both Classes and Nations Creates Our World
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Hoisted from Comments: China’s Unsustainable, Unbalanced Growth Model and Its Current Economic Wobbles
  by Yves Smith 5:27 am

August 29, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/29/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• US Weaponizes Environmental Rhetoric to Seek Water Hegemony
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/29/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Brazil Mulls Phasing Out Physical Cash, As Central Bank Prepares to Launch CBDC
  by Nick Corbishley 6:48 am

• Zelensky’s Latest TV Interview Shows How Much the Ukraine Conflict’s Dynamics Have Shifted
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion
  by Yves Smith 5:37 am

August 28, 2023

• New York Times Bungles Page One School Ventilation Story through Lazy Reporting
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/28/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 8/28/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Danny Haiphong: Pepe Escobar and Michael Hudson Join on BRICS Plus Six, Ukraine, and the Multipolar World Economy!
  by Yves Smith 6:23 am

• Technotage on the Rise? More Efforts to Stymie Job-Threatening, Sometimes Hazardous “Innovations”
  by Yves Smith 5:35 am

• Testing Marx
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 am

August 27, 2023

• As Covid Surges, Los Angeles County Public Health Takes a Minimalist Approach
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• Links 8/27/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

• The Atlas Network and the Building of Argentina’s Donald Trump
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

August 26, 2023

• Links 8/26/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• The NYT & WSJ’s Critical Articles About Kiev’s Counteroffensive Explain Why It Failed
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

August 25, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/25/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Despite 4 Indictments, Trump Will Still Be the GOP Nominee
  by Yves Smith 12:44 pm

• Links 8/25/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Could New BRICS Member Argentina Become First Country to Receive a Full-Scale BRICS Bailout?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:54 am

• KFF Health News Publishes Shameful, Self-Serving Story Advocating Unrealistic “Social Media” Approach to Bogus Insurer Denials Instead of Pushing for External Appeal
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• Henry A. Kissinger at 100, Still a War Criminal
  by Yves Smith 2:09 am

August 24, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/24/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/24/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

• Jonesing on Carbon
  by Yves Smith 4:41 am

• China And U.S. Lock Horns Over New 122.5% Steel Tariff
  by Yves Smith 1:43 am

August 23, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/23/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• China Schizophrenia: Jake Sullivan Makes Demands, Press Fulminates Its Ambitions as While Overhyping Current Economic Wobbles
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change
  by Yves Smith 6:10 am

• Private Equity on Campus: Why College Students Are Sleeping in Cars
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

August 22, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/22/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
  by Yves Smith 10:00 am

• Links 8/22/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Moment of Truth Arrives for Mexico’s Anti-GM Corn Laws
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Fed Ponders How Quickly to Try to Inflict More Pain on the Economy to Get Inflation to 2%
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• China And Russia Execute A Pincer Movement Around Iraq’s Biggest Oil Assets
  by Yves Smith 4:54 am

August 21, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 8/21/2023
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Is Erdogan’s High-Wire Act Running Out of Rope? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Even Plutocrats Can’t Escape the Coming Heat
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• A Russian Paper on New Currency/International Reserve Options Finds No Magic Bullets
  by Yves Smith 2:49 am

• Stigler Center/ProMarket Hypocrisy: Published, Then Removed Post That Justified Anti-Trust; Bogus Excuses Demonstrate University of Chicago Failed Econowashing of Hard Core Neoclassical Stance
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

August 20, 2023

• Links 8/20/2023
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• How German Foreign Minister’s Cancelled Trip Due to Plane Problems Is Symbolic of Country’s Decline 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Memes About Animal Resistance Are Everywhere — Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Laugh off Rebellious Orcas and Sea Otters Too Quickly
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

August 19, 2023

• Links 8/19/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• A Peek at Big Pharma’s Playbook That Leaves Many Americans Unable to Afford Their Drugs
  by Yves Smith 5:40 am

• Interview: Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis
  by Yves Smith 5:12 am

August 18, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/18/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• “Venture Capital Funds Are Mostly Just Wasting Their Time and Your Money”
  by Yves Smith 11:54 am

• Links 8/18/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Better Late Than Never? Spain’s El País Sounds Alarm Over Consequences of Ukraine “Proxy War” for EU’s Future
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• How Javier Milei Upset Argentina’s Political Status Quo
  by Yves Smith 5:32 am

• BRICS Officially Confirmed That It Doesn’t Want To De-Dollarize & Isn’t Anti-Western
  by Yves Smith 4:56 am

August 17, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• CDC’s HICPAC to Gut Hospital Masking Protection for Patients Based on Shoddy “Evidence Review” (and in Further Violation of FACA)
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Links 8/17/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Investors Start Thinking About Underpricing of Climate Risk
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• A New Climate Frontier
  by Yves Smith 12:28 am

• NAM 2.0+G77 vs G7+NATO+OECD+WEF
  by Yves Smith 12:02 am

August 16, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Rise of Private Cops: How Not to Tackle Homelessness
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/16/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Scientism as a Non-Solution to a Problem that Should Not Exist vs. Science as a Solution to a Problem that Must Be Fixed
  by Yves Smith 6:44 am

• Quelle Surprise! High Fee “Alternative Investments” Produce Serious “Negative Alpha” as in Underperformance as Managers Get Rich
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• GE, Bayer, Blamed for Child’s Cancer in a Community Awash in PCB Pollution
  by Yves Smith 5:58 am

August 15, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
  by Yves Smith 11:14 am

• Links 8/15/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Argentina Just Took a Step Closer to Dollarising Its Economy, And Away from the BRICS
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• How to Fix Monetary Policy in Advanced Countries
  by Yves Smith 6:27 am

• European Gas Price Spike Highlights Painful Exposure To Global Markets
  by Yves Smith 4:07 am

August 14, 2023

• CDC’s HICPAC Prepares to Violate the Letter and Spirit of the Federal Advisory Committee Act at Its August 22 Anti-Mask Teleconference
  by Lambert Strether 2:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Analyzing Apparently Irrational Behavior in Western Elites
  by Yves Smith 10:56 am

• Links 8/14/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Wolf Richter: Full Commercialization of Robotaxis Arrives in San Francisco
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• The West and the War in Ukraine: Selling and Buying Hopium
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

August 13, 2023

• Is Obama Running a Shadow Government from His Mansion in Kalorama, Washington DC?
  by Lambert Strether 3:25 pm

• Energy Dept. Announces $1.2 Billion to Advance Controversial Climate Technology (“Direct Air Capture”)
  by Lambert Strether 1:55 pm

• Links 8/13/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 am

August 12, 2023

• “We Need to Raise a Lot More in Tax from the Wealthy but That Does Not Convince Me That We Need a Wealth Tax”
  by Yves Smith 8:41 am

• Links 8/12/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• FDA Tries to Pretend It Didn’t Oppose Ivermectin Use for Covid
  by Yves Smith 5:13 am

August 11, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/11/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Sahel Tug-of-War: U.S. And Russia Face Off For Influence In Niger
  by Yves Smith 9:58 am

• Links 8/11/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Ecuador Descends Deeper Into Chaos Following Assassination of Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Longitudinal – Reflections On Recent Economic Writing
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• The Polish President Said Kiev Isn’t Doing The West Any Favors & Its Counteroffensive Failed
  by Yves Smith 5:21 am

August 10, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Rise in Air Pollution Fuels Antibiotic Resistance, Study Suggests
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/10/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The Overlooked Role of the Financial Crisis in the Subjugation of Europe
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• What Is This “Lawfare” I Keep Hearing About?
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Are Corporate Executives Expendable?
  by Yves Smith 4:27 am

August 9, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• NATO Training Leaves Ukrainian Troops ‘Underprepared’ for War
  by Yves Smith 10:41 am

• Links 8/9/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Vacation for Me, Not for Thee: European Workers’ Hard-Won Summer Vacation Tradition Is Slowly Being Taken Away
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• U.S. And China Locked in an Underwater Cable Tug-of-War
  by Yves Smith 5:56 am

August 8, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/8/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• America’s Supersized Military: “The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History”
  by Yves Smith 9:58 am

• Links 8/8/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• “Big Four” Banks in Both UK and Australia Escalate Their War of Attrition Against Cash
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Angus Deaton on How Neoliberal Ideology Produced Abject US Falling Life Expectancy for Less Educated
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• The Movie and the Moment: An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist
  by Yves Smith 5:09 am

August 7, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?
  by Yves Smith 10:27 am

• Links 8/7/2023
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Road That Could Ignite a War in the Caucasus
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• What Can Social Movements Learn From Gramsci in Today’s Uncertain Times?
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

• Oil, Gas, Wages, Interest Rates: Biden’s Other 2024 Risks
  by Yves Smith 2:57 am

August 6, 2023

• Links 8/6/2023
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Nationalist Right Tries a New Formula to Sell the European Neoliberal Project
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• ‘Renters Are Struggling’: Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

August 5, 2023

• War Hawks’ Drive to Expand NATO into Asia May Destroy Western Military Alliance
  by Yves Smith 11:58 am

• Links 8/5/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Google Alleges First Amendment Violations via YouTube Censorship as a State Actor
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

August 4, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/4/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• More on the Collapse of Operational Capabilities in the West: How Did We Get Here
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/4/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape
  by Nick Corbishley 6:47 am

• Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Russia Is Finally Correcting False Perceptions of BRICS
  by Yves Smith 5:13 am

• NC Under Attack from Ukraine After Posting on Gonzalo Lira Being Tortured and Extorted While in Prison
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

August 3, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/3/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Delivery Workers File Wage Theft Complaints Against DoorDash
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/3/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Energy Destinies – Part 8: Pathways
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• French Invasion of Niger Could Turn into All-Out Franco-African War
  by Yves Smith 6:41 am

• As the Ukraine War Drags On, It’s Time to Reassess the Impacts of Sanctions
  by Yves Smith 5:38 am

August 2, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/2/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Science Versus Scientism in Real Life: Where Do We Go from Here?
  by Yves Smith 10:43 am

• Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance
  by Yves Smith 9:35 am

• Links 8/2/2023
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The Bizarre and Widely Disparaged Fitch Downgrade of US Government Debt to AA+
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Two Overlapping Takes on Inflation
  by Yves Smith 3:42 am

August 1, 2023

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2023
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/1/2023
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Gonzalo Lira Reports Torture in Ukraine Prison, Extortion, Inevitable Conviction with Sentence of 5 to 8 Years in Labor Camp
  by Yves Smith 6:51 am

• The World’s Most Indebted Oil Company, Pemex, Is in Serious Trouble (Or So We Are Told)
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Be Aware: Someone Could Steal Your Medical Records and Bill You for Their Care
  by Yves Smith 6:03 am