Monthly Archives: February 2025

February 11, 2025

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/11/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Imperialism (Still) Rules
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/11/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is Washington Setting Its Sights on Mexico’s Former President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:54 am

• KLG: “If the Overhead Cuts to NIH and NSF Grants Go Through Without Changes, Academic Biomedical and Other Research in the US Will Crumble into Dust”
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• The Execution of the CFPB: Capitalism Survives Another Attempt to Save It
  by Yves Smith 1:55 am

February 10, 2025

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/10/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Climate Minsky Moments: Why They May Matter Less Than Expected
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• We Are Disabling Comments
  by Yves Smith 8:00 am

• US History of Duplicity Means Impossibility of Negotiated Settlements, Including Ukraine; Could a Government in Exile Be Coming?
  by Yves Smith 7:45 am

• Links 2/10/2025
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Paradise Is a Police State: Examining the Techno-Optimism of Billionaire Silicon Valley Investor (And Unofficial Trump Administration Adviser) Marc Andreessen
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• ‘So Much for Lowering Costs’: Fury Over Musk’s Death Wish for CFPB That Returned Over $20 Billion to Consumers
  by Yves Smith 5:16 am

February 9, 2025

• Southern District of NY Pauses DOGE Data Hoovering in State AG’s Case: The Issues, and an Excursion into Federalist 51
  by Lambert Strether 6:55 pm

• Links 2/9/2025
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• On the Front Lines Against Bird Flu, Egg Farmers Say They’re Losing the Battle
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

February 8, 2025

• Links 2/8/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Medicaid Work Requirements Could Boot 36 Million People Off Their Health Coverage: Report
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

• It’s Going to be Torture as the Path to Starmer’s Inevitable Demise Is Rolled Out
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

February 7, 2025

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Is Trump Serious About Trying to Close the Private Equity Carried Interest Loophole?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/7/2025
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Oil for Migrants: Did the Trump Administration Just Reset US Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Even US Messaging Outlet RFE/RL Having Trouble Prettying Up Trump Planning to Buy Ukraine Rare Earths Empty Bag
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• James K. Galbraith Discusses His New Book, Entropy Economics, Plus DOGE, Bitcoin and Tariffs
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

February 6, 2025

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/6/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ICE Faking News: Games Search Engines to Make Mass Deportations Appear Way More Massive Than They Are
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/6/2025
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four – Tony West’s Calamitous Legacy at Uber and with the Kamala Harris Campaign
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Artificial Intelligence and Financial Stability
  by Yves Smith 6:07 am

• Hottest January in the History of Januaries
  by Yves Smith 1:37 am

February 5, 2025

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/5/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/5/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Does Trump’s Attempted “Dismantling” of Spook-Infested, Regime Change Agency USAID Herald a New Foreign Policy Era?
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Life After Lambert Update: KLG to Provide Weekly Health/Pandemic “Coffee Break”; Still Seeking Help in Finding New Site Contributor(s), Including for Other “Coffee Breaks”
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

• Michael Hudson: Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause Huge Global Crisis
  by Yves Smith 1:11 am

• Trump Commits to Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
  by Yves Smith 12:15 am

February 4, 2025

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/4/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Rob Urie: To End Oligarchy, End Finance Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 2/4/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• What Just Happened to UK TBTF Lender Barclays’ Online Banking Services, and What Could It Mean for the Wider World?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• New Filing Details How Crooked Attorney Ann Oldfather and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman Conspired to Sell Out Underwater Pension Funds and Taxpayers to the Tune of Hundreds of Millions, Even >$1 Billion, in Lost Recoveries
  by Yves Smith 6:38 am

• AI’s Impending Information Crisis
  by Yves Smith 1:58 am

February 3, 2025

• Tankus and Kelton on Musk’s DOGE Seizing Treasury’s Payments Chokepoint. But Where Are The Lawyers?
  by Lambert Strether 6:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 2/3/2025
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 2/3/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Trump Declares Economic War on Just About Everyone That Matters. Is a Smash-Up a Feature and Not a Bug? Update: Mexico One Month Pause. Who Blinked?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• How Do We Get Competent Politicians?
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

• Meditation and Mindfulness at Work Are Welcome, but Do They Help Avoid Accountability for Toxic Culture?
  by Yves Smith 2:23 am

February 2, 2025

• Links 2/2/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Will It Matter Who Wins Germany’s Upcoming Election or Will Country’s Fate Largely Be Decided in Washington?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• California Blesses Political Donors’ Strategy to ‘Multiply Their Influence’
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

February 1, 2025

• Links 2/1/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Migrant Vendors Park Carts as Their American Dreams Slip Away
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Book Bans
  by Yves Smith 6:24 am