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Friday, October 4, 2024
The U.S. Is Nowhere Near Ready for Climate Change
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:00 am | 42 Comments »
Links 6/26/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 223 Comments »
Rob Urie: The ‘Israel Lobby’ Works for the US Military Industrial Complex
Why even cynical interpretations of the source of Israel power in US policy are generally not cynical enough.
Topics: Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 43 Comments »
Union ‘Effects’ on Hourly and Weekly Wages: A Half-Century Perspective
Even with union power diminished, union members still benefit from higher weekly pay than non-members.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:24 am | 2 Comments »
Is EU’s Fuzzy Natural Gas Math Leading to Major Minuses in the Caucasus?
Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process gets tangled up with the EU’s desperate ploys to kick Russian gas reliance.
Topics: Curiousities, Energy markets, Europe, Infrastructure, Russia, Turkey
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 11 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/25/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; the debates; Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming book; counting and scripting in the caring professions; mask bans spread ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 108 Comments »
Despite Warnings, Israel Looks Set to Jump Off Lebanon Ledge
Israel looks like it is about to bite off way more than it can chew in instigating a hot war with Lebanon.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:10 am | 134 Comments »
Links 6/25/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 190 Comments »
Washington Frets As Chinese Company Cosco Wraps Up Construction of South America’s Largest Deep Sea Port
“Due to its potential size and volume of operations, Peru’s Chancay mega-port is destined to become a nerve centre of international trade.” And it will be exclusively controlled by Cosco.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
The Fed’s “Chicken Run”: Why Sticking with High Rates Will Crash the Economy
How the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel Without a Cause.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 62 Comments »
Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike
The magnitude of corporate cash going to stock buybacks suggests reversing the Trump tax cuts poses little real economy risk.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, Investment outlook, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:32 am | 5 Comments »
Project 2025: 920 Pages of Irritable Mental Gestures, or a Blueprint for Fascism?
Litmus tests to see if Project 2025 is serious, and a close reading of its “Mandate for Leadership”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 pm | 53 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/24/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics and pandemics; many new Covid charts (New York and New England wastewater down; positivity up; New York hospitaliztation continues its weirdly steady rise); Trump lawfare status; Supreme Court decisions and Thursday’s debate ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 80 Comments »
Links 6/24/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 223 Comments »
Between the Kremlin Cup and the General Staff Lip After Sunday’s Crimea and Dagestan Attacks
Another tug-of-war between the Russian General Staff plus its hawkish friends and Putin.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:47 am | 71 Comments »