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Monday, June 30, 2025
Crypto Crooks Now Eating Their Own as Crypto Holders Targeted in Crime, Even Violent; Coinbase “Hack” an Inside Job, and Highly Damaging to Wallet-Holders
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Currencies, Free markets and their discontents, Legal, Payment system, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 35 Comments »
Links 5/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 150 Comments »
Onward March, Germany
Anti-Russia mania deepens as CDU-led coalition ties future economic health of country to war industry.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 49 Comments »
Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological record.
Topics: Curiousities, Global warming, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 20 Comments »
Nuclear Winter from a Pakistan-India War Could Kill 2 Billion
Even a limited nuclear conflict could cause years of potentially devastating impacts to climate and societies.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, India, Politics, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:15 am | 31 Comments »
Links 5/18/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Life Is Sweet (1990) Run Time: 1H 43M
Life is Sweet is a charming tale of a working class British family in the 1990’s.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 13 Comments »
Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services
RFK Jr. embrace pseudoscience and embarks on eugenicist policies that seek to identify and disempower the underprivileged.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Moral hazard, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 26 Comments »
Links 5/17/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 164 Comments »
Trump’s Trade Deals Endanger Farmers and Our Food System
Trump is reversing protections of the US food system, subjecting farmers to a race to the bottom in international markets
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:25 am | 13 Comments »
Shanghai’s Liberation Daily Interviewed Michael Hudson: The Trade Conflict Has Brought Irreversible Impacts, Trump Is Compromising Himself
A look at the US’s flagging economic model and how the Trump trade war will affect the US, China, and other counties.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:46 am | 34 Comments »
Coffee Break: Notes on Pandemic Responses, a Human Pathogen that Eats the Plastic of Medical Devices, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Speaks Out
Part the First: Retrospective Notes on a Pandemic. BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, has recently published two interesting pieces on COVID-19. The first is an analysis by Anthony Costello, who was previously Director of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health at the World Heath Organization: UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 32 Comments »
Japan to Arm Wrestle the US About Tariffs….and What About Restrictions on Chinese Investments and Products?
Japan wanted an early US trade deal. It is discovering that its sort-of special relationship with the US is not getting it any breaks.
Topics: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Japan, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 18 Comments »
Links 5/16/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 145 Comments »
US Looks to Escalate Its Economic War Against the World’s Poorest By Taxing Remittance Payments
Paradoxically, this is likely to create more, not less, illegal immigration to the US.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 15 Comments »