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Friday, October 11, 2024
Links 11/25/2023
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 191 Comments »
How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World – Dr. Michael Hudson & Dr. Steve Keen
Micheal Hudson and Steve Keen review how finance capitalism prevailed over industrial capitalism, and why that produced bad outcomes.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:53 am | 44 Comments »
The Environmental Impact of Housing and Heating
Good news on the climate change front: some easy fixes to housing would have an impact.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Real estate
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:38 am | 34 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/24/2023
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 49 Comments »
Links 11/24/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 165 Comments »
Quelle Surprise! UK Government Hands Management of NHS Patient Data to CIA-Linked US Spyware Firm, Palantir
The company that aspires to be inside “every missile,… every drone,” including, it seems, those belonging to the Israeli Defence Forces, is now running the patient data platform of the world’s second largest public health care system.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 15 Comments »
NATO’s Proposed “Military Schengen” Is a Thinly Disguised German Power Play Over Poland
Is Germany going to succeed in advancing a key EU aim, putting a trouble-making Poland in a box?
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:54 am | 30 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2023
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 46 Comments »
Links 11/23/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 159 Comments »
Restructuring of the Global Economy – Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
A wide-ranging talk, both geographically and historically, on the accelerating changes in the global economy
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:49 am | 22 Comments »
Russian And Chinese Focus Alights On Iraq’s Strategically Vital Akkas Project
To what ought to be the considerable embarrassment of the US, China and Russia looks set to cinch a major gas licensing deal in Iraq.
Topics: China, Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:11 am | 6 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/22/2023
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 72 Comments »
Links 11/22/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 166 Comments »
Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?
Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:59 am | 49 Comments »
Hamas-Israel Hostage Deal Only a Pause in Destruction of Gaza
The Hamas-Israel hostage/4 day pause deal does not change the trajectory of the conflict.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:26 am | 98 Comments »