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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
Topics: Dubious statistics, Energy markets, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Legal, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:29 am | 37 Comments »
Coronavirus: Kids About as Likely as Adults to Become Infected; What Happens When School Closures Become Widespread?
Coronavirus is already causing large-scale school closures abroad; what happens when that becomes the new normal in the US?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:41 am | 71 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/5/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 324 Comments »
‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
Topics: China, Dubious statistics, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 16 Comments »
Links 3/5/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 402 Comments »
Chief Justice John Roberts Denounces Chuck Schumer’s ‘Threatening’ Remarks About Gorsuch and Kavanaugh
Chuck Schumer channeled his inner Trump. The results were not pretty.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:38 am | 69 Comments »
New MH17 Leak – Dutch Prosecutors Have Received No US Satellite Evidence of the Shoot-Down by a Buk Missile
Yves here. Helmer is still keeping tabs on MH17 developments. By John Helmer, Moscow. Twitter: @bears_with. Originally published at Dances With Bears A new document, leaked from the files of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in The Netherlands, reveals that Dutch prosecutors told the Australian, Belgian and Ukrainian representatives on the team, that the US […]
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:25 am | 36 Comments »
How Books and Bookshops Improve Our Mental Health – And Why We Must Protect Them
Books as therapy.
Topics: Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:32 am | 40 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Key dates coming fast now, so I added some counters: Some of the next primaries. (I picked the […]
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 365 Comments »
Banks and Landlords Have To Pick Up the Costs of the Pandemic To Come to Forestall a Depression
Why banks and landlords (and the health care industry) need to pay their share of coronavirus costs.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 84 Comments »
Links 3/4/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 370 Comments »
Brexit: Pawing and Snorting
In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:40 am | 25 Comments »
According to the WHO, Coronavirus Is WORSE Than the Spanish Flu … Which Killed Tens of Millions of People
A short public service message intended for those who still think the coronavirus is not a big deal.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:25 am | 227 Comments »
Super Tuesday Open Thread
Check in and opine as Super Tuesday results come in!
Topics: Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 7:33 pm | 482 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/3/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Semi-open thread.
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 230 Comments »