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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Links 12/21/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 240 Comments »
Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Legal, Pandemic, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:34 am | 67 Comments »
Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:29 am | 9 Comments »
New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, India
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 pm | 12 Comments »
Links 12/20/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 351 Comments »
Wolf Richter: Who Holds the $1.65 Trillion of Apartment Building Debt amid Eviction Bans and Plunging Occupancy Rates at High Rises?
How much apartment building debt is there, and who holds it?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Moral hazard, Real estate
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 29 Comments »
Links 12/19/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 270 Comments »
How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Topics: China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:19 am | 71 Comments »
SCOTUS: States Can Bar Pharmacy Benefit Manager Grifting
A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:42 am | 3 Comments »
We Are Fourteen Years Old
Fourteen years old and (hopefully) still making lots of trouble!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:19 am | 93 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2020
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 145 Comments »
Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Science and the scientific method, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 55 Comments »
Links 12/18/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 142 Comments »
Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:26 am | 122 Comments »
Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 27 Comments »