The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like?
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Private equity, Privatization, Russia, Social policy
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 83 Comments »
David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture
Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.
Topics: Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 34 Comments »
Links 1/18/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 168 Comments »
Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex?
On Biden’s self-serving and lame warning about the evils of the tech-industrial complex, which to him amounts to social media disinformation.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:47 am | 40 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada
Michael Hudson on the method in Trump’s seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:10 am | 50 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts that Lambert does not like; Faiz Shakir throws his hat in the DNC ring; Ancient Britain a matriarchal society? ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 151 Comments »
mBridge, a Bank of International Settlements Project Hyped by BRICS Fans as a Way to Evade Sanctions, Shut Down
Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Global warming, Payment system, Politics, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:31 am | 17 Comments »
Links 1/17/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 166 Comments »
New York Judge Loretta Preska Just Declared Open Season on Argentina’s Gold Reserves
The question is: where is the gold?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 13 Comments »
Actuaries and Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Risk ‘Planetary Insolvency’ as Power Struggles About How to Rebuild LA Begin
A new report shows a 50% GDP fall from 2070 to 2090 due to climate change. Los Angeles gives a taste of coming struggles about what to do.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Legal, Politics, Real estate, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 34 Comments »
Closing Ranks: Organised Labour and Immigration
Quelle surprise! Historically, high levels of immigration in the US led to more union formation.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:03 am | 4 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/16/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Treasury nominee Bessent under fire? RedNote’s moment to pass? Infantry in battle ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 81 Comments »
Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’
Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Moral hazard, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:56 am | 15 Comments »
Links 1/16/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 210 Comments »
Gaza Ceasefire Deal Still Not Approved by Knesset. And Why Should the World Trust Israel to Comply if So?
Sadly Netanyahu is trying to slip the noose of the much-ballyhooed Gaza ceasefire deal and may succeed.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 66 Comments »