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Friday, October 4, 2024
Coronavirus: Australia Faces Calamity
Topics: Australia, China, Commodities, Credit markets, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Investment outlook
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:50 am | 101 Comments »
Brexit: Warmed Over Chicken
Brexit trade talks are about to begin. The UK is back in drama queen mode.
Topics: Brexit, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Legal, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:30 am | 48 Comments »
Shall We Have a Dallas Meetup Thursday February 13?
Up for a Dallas meetup next week?
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:28 am | 3 Comments »
China Coronavirus Watch: Transmission Methods, Travel, Potential Mutation, AIDS Connection Debunked
Would the United States, faced with a similar challenge, do better than China?
Topics: China, Globalization, Guest Post, Health care
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:55 pm | 69 Comments »
Links 2/2/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 306 Comments »
Climate Change Helped Spawn East Africa’s Locust Crisis
East Africa had an unusually wet year in 2019 — warming waters in the Indian Ocean produced a high number of tropical cyclones, which doused the coast and created “exceptional” conditions for locust breeding.
Topics: Africa, Environment, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 12 Comments »
Links 2/1/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 323 Comments »
Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
Fed tightening is no longer needed to create recessions, given fragile credit structures and a growing pandemic out of China.
Topics: China, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Market inefficiencies
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:43 am | 55 Comments »
Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:34 am | 17 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 168 Comments »
Student Enrollment Dropped 11% Since 2011, Student-Loan Balances Surged 74%. Why?
Drilling into why the student loan problem keeps getting worse.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Student loans, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 48 Comments »
Links 1/31/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 222 Comments »
US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
Topics: Banana republic, China, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 30 Comments »
Brexit D-Day
The big Brexit day is here.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:57 am | 132 Comments »
How Iowa Chooses National Convention Delegates and What That Means For Us
Explaining the Iowa Caucus Rube Goldberg machine.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:32 am | 29 Comments »