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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Down to the Wire for 2025 Fundraiser, Help Hit Our New Donor and $ Targets!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:22 pm | 4 Comments »
Farmers Fight Federal Efforts to Block States from Promoting Humane Animal Agriculture
Federal legislation is pending as part of a Big Ag effort to combat states requiring more humane animal farming methods.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 12 Comments »
Procrastinators of the World, Unite! Last Day, Last Chance for Our 2025 Fundraiser!
Last chance for our 2025 fundraiser! If you haven’t contributed yet, please stop by our Tip Jar and chip in. You’ll be glad you did!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 7 Comments »
Links 10/10/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 135 Comments »
Things Are Getting Seriously Surreal in Milei’s Argentina
Recent happenings include a partly state-funded rock concert headlined by Milei himself whose government is busy putting the “narco” in anarcho-capitalism.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability
Why stablecoins are another finanical train wreck in the making.
Topics: Credit markets, Currencies, Derivatives, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:42 am | 28 Comments »
Ten Reasons Why Trump Should Never Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Sadly, due to Trump’s relentless and bogus self-promotion as a peacemaker deserving of the Nobel Prize, debunking is in order.
Topics: Banking industry, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:50 am | 51 Comments »
Kudos! Met Our Sixth Goal, On to Our Seventh: More Original Reporting
We’ve just started on our final goal, original reporting. Can you make this fundraiser a great success by chipping in now?
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:17 pm | 2 Comments »
Europe Is Not a State; That Is Why It Is at War With Russia
The euro’s problem is that the European Union is not a state — and war is the fastest way to become one.
Topics: Coffee Break, Currencies, Europe, Russia, Surveillance state
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 31 Comments »
Waiting for the Wheels to Come Off as Jamie Dimon, the IMF and Bank of England Warn of Damage of an AI Bubble Burst
A look at the increasingly expected AI bubble implosion and what the impact might be.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Income disparity, Investment outlook, Japan, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 46 Comments »
Links 10/9/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 109 Comments »
Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Mark Ames’ warning about how the then-influential left ceded power by ignoring finance.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 5 Comments »
Will Trump Work Himself Into a Shoot Versus Illinois Governor?
Trump seems to be baiting the Democrats into civil conflict, but does anyone involved actually know what they’re doing?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 6:45 am | 66 Comments »
Economic Justice, Desert, and Capitalism (Again)
Ironically, or maybe not, popular ideas and even those of economists about economic justice are at odds with ownership of capital.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Social values, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:45 am | 13 Comments »
Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN
Why the UN should not sit back during the current Israel-Palestine negotiations headfake but should take specific steps to support Palestine.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:04 am | 26 Comments »


