A Biden rescue of the sickest private pension plans goes largely under the radar.
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Friday, November 21, 2025
Biden Stimulus Plan Shores Up Weakest Multi-Employer Pension Plans Rather than Taking on Private Equity Abuses
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, Pandemic, Politics, Private equity, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:43 am | 12 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/15/2021
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 95 Comments »
Indian Vaccine Manufacturers: U.S. Use of Wartime Export Controls Threatens World Vaccine Production
Will the U.S. relax export controls that threaten global vaccine production? What’s the next step for U.S. vacccine diplomacy?
Topics: Africa, Health care, India, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:55 pm | 14 Comments »
Links 3/15/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:58 am | 136 Comments »
‘Disturbing’: Rich Nations Vaccinating Person Per Second While Blocking Effort to Share Recipe With Poor Countries
Rich nations continue to block a propsed waiver of intellectual property rights to allow global sharing of vaccine tecnology and production.
Topics: Africa, Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, India, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 20 Comments »
New Zealand’s Feeble Attempt to Curb Sky-High Housing Prices
New Zealand, awfully late in the game, is trying to Do Something about insane housing prices.
Topics: Australia, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Macroeconomic policy, New Zealand, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:17 am | 42 Comments »
Nomi Prins: To Build or Not to Build? The Infrastructure Question
For all sorts of bad reasons, American has a huge infrastructure spending backlog. But can we even do the job well?
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Infrastructure, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Privatization
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:11 am | 55 Comments »
For the Birds: Lights Out Philly
Bird Safe Philly announces voluntary initiative to switch off lights on skyscrapers to prevent migrating birds from crashing to their deaths.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:25 pm | 13 Comments »
Links 3/14/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:58 am | 144 Comments »
Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 47 Comments »
Links 3/13/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 175 Comments »
The Productivity of Working from Home: Evidence from Japan
A new study confirms others in concluding that productivity is lower when normally office-based employees work from home.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Pandemic, Social policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:57 am | 33 Comments »
Brazil’s Catastrophic Management of COVID-19 Threatens the Entire World
Bolosonaro is responsible for Brasil’s botched Covid response. But the consequences extent far beyond the country’s borders.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 17 Comments »
By Declaring March 11 “Our” Covid Anniversary, the Press Erases Covid’s Origin Story in the U.S.
The hive mind hums happily.
Topics: Guest Post, Payment system, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:25 pm | 51 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/12/2021
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 172 Comments »



