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Saturday, July 19, 2025
Banks and Payment Card Companies Form a Discount Cartel to Take Down Cash in “Cash-Addicted” Germany
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 11 Comments »
Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible?
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A new expose on Facebook confirms some known abuses while also describing malign influence in unexpected corners of the world
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:24 am | 24 Comments »
AI Robot Pets Can Be Adorable and Emotionally Responsive. They Also Raise Questions About Attachment and Mental Health
A discussion of AI companions consider some, but perhaps not enough, of the downsides.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:39 am | 16 Comments »
Links 3/27/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 201 Comments »
Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million Plus, New Study Estimates
A new study estimates the cost of payday loans in New York as the state debates tightening rules on these fintechs beyond existing usury laws
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 13 Comments »
House Speaker Johnson Threatens to Defund Federal Courts
The Trump war against the judiciary reaches a new fevered pitch, with Speaker Johnson threatening Federal court funding.
Topics: Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:16 am | 92 Comments »
Ukraine Rare Earths Deal Is Nonsense To Mining Experts
Professionals try to put a stake in the heart of the Trump rare earths deal palaver.
Topics: Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:45 am | 36 Comments »
Russia-US Negotiations: Trump Criticism Follows the Bad Sign of the Lack of a Joint Statement After Last Round and the Iran Angle
Having barely started, the US-Russia negotiaions are already going a bit pear shaped.
Topics: Banana republic, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:21 am | 57 Comments »
Links 3/26/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 149 Comments »
Biomedical Research, Its Funding and Its Practice: Where Do We Go from Here?
How biomedical research is funded by public institutions and performed in universities and research institutions, both now in danger
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social values
Posted by KLG at 6:54 am | 11 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: Crypto’s Role in Trump’s Economic Masterplan (With Special Emphasis on Stablecoins)
Might there be more method in Trump’s crypto and dollar madness than most assume?
Topics: Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Payment system, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 33 Comments »
Extreme Heat, Hospital Crowding, and the Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change
A study confirms that extreme heat events stress hospitals so much that they produce non-heat excess deaths.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Global warming, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 6 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Missile Defense Pretense
Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The impossible dream of a national missile shield and the implications for Trump’s Golden Dome
Topics: Coffee Break, Guest Post
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 32 Comments »
Trump’s Desire to ‘Un-Unite’ Russia and China Is Unlikely to Work – In Fact, It Could Well Backfire
The oh-so-clever US intends to drive a wedge between China and Russia, after having been mean to Russia and still mean to China.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:01 am | 47 Comments »
Links 3/25/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 216 Comments »