Author Archives: Yves Smith
Why Mexican Farmers Are Hopeful About López Obrador’s Win
Obrador promised to implement pro-farmer policies, such as increasing self-sufficiency in food. But will he have gone far enough for them if Mexico stays in Nafta?
Read more...Europe Isolates China Trade Cheat
The “every man for himself” game of responding to Trump’s trade threats is working against China’s hope to team up with Europe.
Read more...Gaius Publius: SF Chronicle OpEd – The Next U.S. Constitution Is Forming now
More on our slow-motion Constitutional crisis.
Read more...Meetup Reminders! Chicago Meetup Friday July 6; Sunday July 8 Meetup in Green Bay
If you live near Chicago or Green Bay, be sure to stop by our meetup!
Read more...Was Martin Luther King a Socialist?
A new book corrects the tendency of biographers and commentators to airbrush out Martin Luther King’s socialist leanings.
Read more...Links 7/5/18
Iran Threatens To Close the Strait of Hormuz
Yves here. A map of the Strait of Hormuz and environs seemed a useful addition. The danger, as the article insinuates, is that if things got that far, a conflict over the Strait of Hormuz would escalate into a full-scale conflagration. By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven, a long-time observer of the global energy market. Presently, he […]
Read more...Richard Murphy: Ignore the Gini Coefficient – Real Inequality Is Growing and People Are Suffering as a Result
More lying with statistics on the inequality front.
Read more...Links 7/4/18
Interview: Teaching Graham Elwood Modern Money, and How the Progressive Media Gets It Wrong
A case study in teaching modern money to a progressive who unknowingly has swallowed neoliberal economic ideas.
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
How businesses created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Read more...Meetups Coming Soon! Friday July 6 in Chicago, Sunday July 8 in Green Bay
Reminders and details for coming meetups. See you soon!
Read more...Links 7/3/18
Anthony Kennedy and Our Delayed Constitutional Crisis
The role Justice Anthony Kennedy played in the deteriorating legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
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